Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-78 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 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 34065: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 scallop
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
sp. A
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
sp. B
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia "sp. A" Buckman 1917
sp. A
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812