Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 3-24 (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 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
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus cf. scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata
"Pinna cf. radiata" = Pinna (Pinna) radiata Munster 1837 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia andium Giebel 1861 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
turbiniform
 Heterostropha - Tubiferidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral