Cerritos Bayos, Antofagasta: Aalenian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Pérez et al. 2015
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea marcoui Koby 1885
4 specimens
Isastrea richardsoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Isastrea serialis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
2 specimens
recombined as Trigerastraea serialis
Microphyllia pulchella Beauvais 1966
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 22.8° South, 69.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.1° South, 33.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Aalenian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Aalenian
Age range of interval:174.70000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Geology comments: shallow marine sediments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:58563
Authorizer:M. Aberhan, M. Uhen Enterer:S. Nurnberg, M. Uhen
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-14 03:26:47 Last modified:2006-03-23 12:51:11
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-14 03:26:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9156. P. Prinz. 1991. Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216:147-209 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

77297 J. P. Pérez, R. A. Otero, and M. E. Suárez. 2015. Síntesis del registro fósil de ictiosaurios (Reptilia: Icthyosauria) en Chile. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:113-150 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]