Where: Chile (28.7° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 33.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 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 35449: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior oyster | |
Gervillaria hartmanni Münster 1834 oyster | |
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
Plicatula "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Vaugonia exotica clam | |
Trigonia stelzneri clam | |
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonelloidea sp. Buckman 1917 | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 |