Quebrada Paipote, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.2° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

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 58550: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea explanulata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
"Andenipora liasica" = Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) liasica
"Andenipora liasica" = Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) liasica Gerth 1926 demosponge