North of Rio Rapel [Navidad Fm]: Early/Lower Miocene, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Plesiocetopsis sp. (Brandt 1873)
Gutstein et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea
Plesiocetus sp. Van Beneden 1859
Oliver Schneider 1935 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Monilea riorapelensis n. sp.
Tegula (Chlorostoma) austropacifica n. sp. Nielsen et al. 2004
recombined as Chlorostoma austropacifica
Calliostoma mapucherum n. sp.
Astele chilensis
Gastropoda - Tegulidae
Tegula (Agathisoma) antiqua n. sp. Nielsen et al. 2004
recombined as Agathistoma antiqua
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Cantrainea sp.
spelled with current rank as Homalopoma (Cantrainea)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudolividae
Triumphis maitenlahuensis Nielsen and Frassinetti 2003
Nielsen and Frassinetti 2003
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivancillaria claneophila (Duclos 1835)
Nielsen 2004 3 specimens
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Crassicymatium crassicordatum Beu 2010
Beu 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 33.9° South, 71.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.8° South, 66.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Navidad
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep-water indet.
Geology comments: neritic to bathyal, deep water mass influenced
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46980
Authorizer:L. Ivany, P. Wagner, A. Hendy, M. Uhen, M. Aberhan Enterer:P. Wall, A. Hendy, P. Wagner, S. Nurnberg, M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:78523
Created:2005-01-28 12:11:59 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:51:06
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-28 12:11:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12484. S. N. Nielsen, D. Frassinetti, and K. Bandel. 2004. Miocene Vetigastropoda and Neritimorpha (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17:73-88 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
77279 C. S. Gutstein, F. E. Horwitz, A. M. Valenzuela-Toro and C. P. Figueroa-Bravo. 2015. Cetáceos fósiles de Chile: Contexto evolutivo y paleobiogeográfico. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:339-383 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19661 S. N. Nielsen. 2004. The genus Olivancillaria (Gastropoda: Olividae) in the Miocene of Chile: rediscovery of a senior synonym and description of a new species. The Nautilus 118(2):88-92 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]
19660 S. N. Nielsen and D. Frassinetti. 2003. New and little known species of Pseudolividae (Gastropoda) from the Tertiary of Chile. The Nautilus 117(3):91-96 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]
24751 C. Oliver Schneider. 1935. Mamiferos fossiles de Chile. Revista Chileana de Historia Natural 39:297-304 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]