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
Bivalvia | |
Psilotrigonia vegaensis n. sp.
Psilotrigonia vegaensis n. sp. Pérez et al. 2008 clam |