Cerritos Bayos, Antofagasta (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (22.8° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal

• shallow marine sediments

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 58563: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.02.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea richardsoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Isastrea marcoui Koby 1885 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Microphyllia pulchella Beauvais 1966 stony coral
"Isastrea serialis" = Trigerastraea serialis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral