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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cercomya undulata Sowerby 1827 clam | |
"Pholadomya fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula
"Pholadomya fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam | |
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Astarte aureliae clam | |
Vaugonia exotica clam | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
"Modiolus imbricatus" = Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus Sowerby 1818 mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonelloidea "sp. A" Buckman 1917 | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 |