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 | |
Fissurellidae indet. Fleming 1822 snail
Diodora "sp. 1" Gray 1821 snail
Diodora "sp. 2" Gray 1821 snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
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