Sierra de Candeleros, Cordillera Domeyko, Antofagasta (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (25.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

• transition Callovian/Oxfordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Prinz. 1991. Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216:147-209 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58441: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea crassoramosa Michelin 1843 stony coral
Actinastrea matheyi Koby 1885 stony coral
Actinastrea pentagonalis Goldfuss 1829 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
? Microphyllia "sp. B" d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
? Pseudomelania "sp. 2" Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail