Where: Chile (33.8° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Units I-III Member (Lo Valdés Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Unit I: 625 m.

•Unit II: 130 m.

•Unit III: 65 m.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Hallam, L. Biró-Bagóczky, and E. Perez. 1986. Facies analysis of the Lo Valdés Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian) of the High Cordillera of Central Chile, and the palaeogeographic evolution of the Andean Basin. Geological Magazine 123(4):425-435 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57144: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.12.2005

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