Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4a: Middle Toarcian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonelloidea informal sp. A Buckman 1917
28 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris subpunctata (Davidson 1851)
5 individuals
synonym of Lobothyris punctata
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus baylei
1 individual
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
61 individuals
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) latior
61 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
14 individuals
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella araucana Damborenea 1987
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum (Smith 1817)
4 individuals
original and current combination Ostrea rugosa
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri (Brauns 1871)
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
4 individuals
Eopecten abjectus
7 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte aureliae
9 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya corrugata Koch and Dunker 1837
1 individual
recombined as Pholadomya (Pholadomya) corrugata
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
44 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia exotica
8 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia stelzneri
20 individuals
Trigonia informal sp. B Bruguière 1789
6 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 29.0° South, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.4° South, 33.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Middle Toarcian
Age range of interval:182.00000 - 175.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Quebrada Pinte Local bed:4a
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:321 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:35445
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-12-16 01:05:37 Last modified:2017-08-01 18:58:17
Access level:the public Released:2003-12-16 01:05:37
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]