Where: Chile (26.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 32.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Toarcian to Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 170.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone
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 35454: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Goniomya (Goniomya) asientosensis Aberhan 2004 clam | |
Cercomy (Cercomya) undulata Sowerby 1827 clam | |
Modiolus baylei mussel
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel | |
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop | |
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam | |
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812 | |