Where: Chile (25.9° S, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 32.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• Bivalves: Middle to late Hettangian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,

• collected since 1966

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 58536: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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