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 33660: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Martin Aberhan on 05.08.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus chilensis mussel
Modiolus cf. scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel | |
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam | |
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop | |
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata Munster 1837 oyster | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior oyster | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
"Isocardia" liasina clam | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) multilineata Gabb 1870 clam
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Cardinia andium Giebel 1861 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Lithotrochus humboldti top snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |
Rudirhynchia aff. rudis Buckman 1917 | |
Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra Sowerby 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral |