Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 1-42: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella araucana Damborenea 1987
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon costatum
3 individuals
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma informal sp. B Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
37 individuals
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
23 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea (d'Orbigny 1850)
53 individuals
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
? Platymyoidea cf. longa (Buvignier 1852)
12 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia crassimedia Buckman 1917
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris cf. ovatissima (Quenstadt 1856)
31 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 29.0° South, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° South, 31.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:1-42
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:mechanical
Collection size:166 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32409
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:M. Aberhan
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-30 01:54:00 Last modified:2016-08-09 16:54:23
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-30 01:54:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

487. M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]