Where: Chile (34.0° S, 71.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 66.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Navidad Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), 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 46981: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.01.2005, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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