Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-68 (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)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

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 34058: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Radulonectites sosneadoensis Weaver 1931 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 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 sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia "sp. A" Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae