Quebrada Chanchoquin-Paitepen, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.8° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 32.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dactylioceras hoelderi ammonoid zone, Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• ammonoid zone: details given for trigonioids only

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,

• collected since 1966

Primary reference: J. Gründel. 2001. Gastropoden aus dem Jura der südamerikanischen Anden - Gastropods from the Jurassic of the Andes of South America. Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies - Heft 9; Freiberger Forschungshefte C 492:43-84 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95111: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Vetigastropoda - Discohelicidae
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia hectorleanzai n. sp. Pérez et al. 2008 clam