Quebrada El Asiento, Profil 2, Sample 2-60: Late/Upper Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. radiata Munster 1837
5 individuals
recombined as Pinna (Pinna) radiata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma informal sp. B Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
10 individuals
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla (Weyla) titan Moricke 1894
1 individual
Weyla (Weyla) alata (von Buch 1838)
36 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Laevitrigoniidae
Quadratojaworskiella pustulata (Reyes and Perez 1980)
2 individuals
Trigonia inexspectata Jaworski 1916
1 individual
recombined as Frenguelliella inexspectata
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella (Myophorella) araucana (Leanza 1942)
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) corrugata (Koch and Dunker 1837)
14 individuals
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) multilineata (Gabb 1870)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
"Isocardia" liasina
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arcticidae indet. Newton 1891
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" informal sp. A Müller 1776
1 individual
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
7 individuals
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
13 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 26.5° South, 69.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° South, 32.1° 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 El Asiento Local bed:2-60
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
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical
Collection size:108 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33882
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-08 06:07:17 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:03:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-08 06:07:17
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]