SGOPI loc. 031282, 1 km north of Matanzas, Cardenal Caro Province (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (34.0° S, 71.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 69.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Navidad Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• 'Darwin described outcrops of "yellowish earthy sandstones, with ferruginous veins, and with concretions of hard calcareous sandstone" near Navidad, Cardenal Caro Province, central Chile. He referred to these outcrops as the "Formation of Navidad".' The excellent preservation points to the derivation of the specimens from the calcareous sandstone concretions.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. T. Groves and S. N. Nielsen. 2003. A New Late Miocene Zonaria (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from Central Chile. The Veliger 46(4):351-354 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68325: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.01.2007, edited by Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Struthiolariidae
Perissodonta chilensis2
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus (Austrombus) medinae2
Strombus (Austrombus) medinae2 Philippi 1887 conch
n. subgen.
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Zonaria (Zonaria) frassinettii n. sp." = Pseudozonaria frassinettii
"Zonaria (Zonaria) frassinettii n. sp." = Pseudozonaria frassinettii Groves and Nielsen 2003 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora paulinae3
Xenophora paulinae3 Nielsen and DeVries 2002 carrier shell
 Neogastropoda - Pseudolividae
Macron vermeiji n. sp.3, Testallium cepa3
Macron vermeiji n. sp.3 Nielsen and Frassinetti 2003 snail
Testallium cepa3 Sowerby 1846 snail
juvenile
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivancillaria claneophila1, Olivancillaria matanzana1
Olivancillaria claneophila1 Duclos 1835 olive snail
Olivancillaria matanzana1 Nielsen 2004 olive snail
1Nielsen 2004; 2Nielsen 2005; 3Nielsen and Frassinetti 2003