Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 1-139: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
6 individuals
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Andenipora liasica Gerth 1926
3 individuals
recombined as Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) liasica
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla titan Moricke 1894
3 individuals
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
10 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma informal sp. A Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
sp. A
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
3 individuals
sp. B
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
1 individual
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
? Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849
1 individual
Gastropoda - Naticidae
"Natica" bulimoides
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia informal sp. A Buckman 1917
4 individuals
sp. A
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina chilensis
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris subpunctata (Davidson 1851)
183 individuals
synonym of Lobothyris punctata
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 29.0° South, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° South, 32.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:1-139
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
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 methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Collection size:225 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33579
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:M. Aberhan
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-04 07:24:12 Last modified:2017-07-31 18:51:39
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-04 07:24:12
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]