Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-43 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 31.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 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 33964: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida -
"Pteriacea gen. et sp. indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea gen. et sp. indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
sp. B
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 scallop
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938 clam