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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Quadratirhynchia "sp. A" Buckman 1917 | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus baylei mussel | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Radulonectites sosneadoensis Weaver 1931 scallop | |
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 scallop | |
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
Plagiostoma "sp. B" Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Anisocardia "sp. A" Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |