Vega Redonda, Atacama (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 31.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian to Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• Late Sinemurian or Early Pliensbachian

• 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: E. Pérez, M. Aberhan, R. Reyes and A. Hillebrandt. 2008. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part III. Order Trigonioida. Beringeria 39:51-102 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95104: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• trigonioids only
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Psilotrigonia vegaensis n. sp. Pérez et al. 2008 clam