Ranquil Fm: Lebu (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Bio-Bio, Chile (37.6° S, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° S, 71.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Ranquil Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: S. N. Nielsen, D. Frassinetti, and K. Bandel. 2004. Miocene Vetigastropoda and Neritimorpha (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:73-88 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46978: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.01.2005, edited by Sabine Nürnberg and Damián Perez

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurellidae indet. Fleming 1822 snail
Diodora "sp. 1" Gray 1821 snail
Diodora "sp. 2" Gray 1821 snail
 Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae
Exilia alanbeui1 Nielsen 2005 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Ameghinomya volckmanni2 Philippi 1887 venus clam