Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-68: Late/Upper Sinemurian, 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
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina chilensis
116 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Quadratirhynchia informal sp. A Buckman 1917
11 individuals
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus baylei
1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Radulonectites sosneadoensis (Weaver 1931)
1 individual
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla titan Moricke 1894
3 individuals
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
4 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma informal sp. A Sowerby 1814
1 individual
Plagiostoma informal sp. B Sowerby 1814
3 individuals
Ctenostreon wrighti Bayle 1878
2 individuals
synonym of Ostrea rugosa
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia informal sp. A Munier-Chalmas 1863
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Myophorigonia aff. neuquensis
1 individual
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:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:4-68
Local order:bottom to top
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:mechanical
Collection size:158 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34058
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-08-14 04:04:40 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:07:52
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-14 04:04:40
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]