Quebrada Yerbas Buenas, Atacama: Sinemurian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Lithotrochus humboldtii (von Buch 1839)
5 fragments
juveniles
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria paipotensis
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
1 individual
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Zygopleura sp.
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 27.4° South, 69.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.4° South, 31.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:58733
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-23 03:20:11 Last modified:2006-03-23 12:30:24
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-23 03:20:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15673. J. Gründel. 2001. Gastropoden aus dem Jura der südamerikanischen Anden - Gastropods from the Jurassic of the Andes of South America. Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies - Heft 9; Freiberger Forschungshefte C 492:43-84 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]