Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 3-23 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collection methods: mechanical

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33659: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 05.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
trochiform
 Heterostropha - Tubiferidae
Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
? Platymyoidea cf. longa Buvignier 1852 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia andium Giebel 1861 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella araucana Leanza 1942 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum, Plagiostoma "sp. B"
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata Munster 1837 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral