Quebrada Asientos, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.5° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fanninoceras fannini ammonoid zone, Margaritatus (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• ammonoid zone: details given for trigonioids only (horizon with F. fannini and ?horizon with Fanninoceras leptodiscus). Bottom part of leptodiscus horizon correlated with Davoei zone.

• 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: M. Aberhan. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 13:3-115 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95068: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.04.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bivalves only; list includes only taxa that have not been reported in Aberhan (1992)
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oxynoticeratidae
Radstockiceras sp.3 Buckman 1918 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon hirsonensis d'Archiac 1843 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Jaworskiella burckhardti2 Jaworski 1916 clam
Quadratojaworskiella pustulata2 Reyes and Perez 1980 clam
Frenguelliella inexspectata2 Jaworski 1916 clam
Vaugonia "sp. 2"2 Crickmay 1930 clam
 Trigoniida - Groeberellidae
Groeberella neuquensis2 Groeber 1924 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Coelastarte fuersichi n. sp.1 Aberhan 2007 clam