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 34090: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
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Cirpa sp. De Gregorio 1930 | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |
Bivalvia | |
Actinostreon longistriatum oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
? Nanogyra cf. auricularis Munster 1833 oyster | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Weyla titan Moricke 1894 scallop
Weyla alata von Buch 1838 scallop
Weyla bodenbenderi Behrendsen 1891 scallop | |
"Antiquilima cf. nagatoensis" = Antiquilima (Antiquilima) nagatoensis, Plagiostoma "sp. A", Plagiostoma sp., "Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum
"Antiquilima cf. nagatoensis" = Antiquilima (Antiquilima) nagatoensis Hayami 1959 file clam
"Ctenostreon wrighti" = Ctenostreon rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel |