Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-150 B2: Late/Upper Pliensbachian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Rudirhynchia aff. rudis Buckman 1917
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra (Sowerby 1812)
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Naticidae
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Weyla alata (von Buch 1838)
37 individuals
recombined as Weyla (Weyla) alata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium corneolum (Young and Bird 1828)
13 individuals
recombined as Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. radiata Munster 1837
1 individual
recombined as Pinna (Pinna) radiata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
1 individual
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior
1 individual
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pachymya rotundocaudata (Leanza 1942)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mesomiltha bellona d'Orbigny 1850
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia andium (Giebel 1861)
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella araucana (Leanza 1942)
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:4-150 B2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical
Collection size:85 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:35433
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-12-15 05:26:58 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:16:01
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-15 05:26:58
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]