Quebrada Pinte, Profil 6, Sample 3-25: Late/Upper Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris subpunctata (Davidson 1851)
7 individuals
synonym of Lobothyris punctata
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
1 individual
turbiniform
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria" informal sp. A Defrance 1826
1 individual
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus chilensis
1 individual
Modiolus cf. scalprum (Sowerby 1821)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla bodenbenderi (Behrendsen 1891)
6 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) bodenbenderi
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
18 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Weyla titan Moricke 1894
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma informal sp. A Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
Plagiostoma informal sp. B Sowerby 1814
3 individuals
Ctenostreon wrighti Bayle 1878
2 individuals
synonym of Ostrea rugosa
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
2 individuals
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillaria pallas (Leanza 1942)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon jupiter
1 individual
Gervilleioperna (Gervilletia) turgida
1 individual
Gervilleioperna aurita Aberhan and von Hillebrandt 1996
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. radiata Munster 1837
6 individuals
recombined as Pinna (Pinna) radiata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
1 individual
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon groeberi Damborenea 1987
6 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
21 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
24 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya fidicula Sowerby 1826
1 individual
recombined as Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula
Pholadomya corrugata Koch and Dunker 1837
1 individual
recombined as Pholadomya (Pholadomya) corrugata
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850
14 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia andium (Giebel 1861)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Myophorigonia aff. neuquensis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella araucana (Leanza 1942)
1 individual
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
2 individuals
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:Late/Upper Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:3-25
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 methods:mechanical
Collection size:138 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33661
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:M. Aberhan, S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-05 04:14:42 Last modified:2017-07-31 18:56:17
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-05 04:14:42
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]