Salar de Pedernales, Profil 1, Sample 6-2 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 32.8° 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 35453: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Weyla (Weyla) titan Moricke 1894 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae