Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-43: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia crassimedia Buckman 1917
22 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris cf. ovatissima (Quenstadt 1856)
45 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Pteriacea gen. et sp. indet.
1 individual
replaced by Pterioidea
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
sp. B
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla titan Moricke 1894
1 individual
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
13 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
4 individuals
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha sp. Chavan 1938
2 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
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:196.50000 - 189.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:4-43
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:90 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:33964
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-11 05:09:06 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:06:21
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-11 05:09:06
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]