Quebrada El Bolito, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.2° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 'Pleydellia fluitans' ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• 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 95110: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• trigonioids only
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Scaphorella susanae Pérez et al. 2008 clam