Where: Chile (27.8° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 36.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Totoralillo Formation (Chanarcillo Group), Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• Crioceratites emerici zone; middle part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. A. Mourgues. 2004. Advances in ammonite biostratigraphy of the marine Atacama basin (Lower Cretaceous), northern Chile, and its relationship with the Neuquen basin, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:3-10 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67496: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Shasticrioceras cf. poniente Anderson 1938 ammonite |