Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 3-43 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 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 33875: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya undulata Sowerby 1827 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
"Pholadomya fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula
"Pholadomya fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812