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 | |
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987 clam | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Weyla (Weyla) titan Moricke 1894 scallop | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior oyster | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Vaugonia exotica clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Quadratirhynchia "sp. B" Buckman 1917 |