Loc. 060984/3 - Crosslet Island: Middle Miocene, Chile
collected by Covacevich & Frassinetti

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
"Oliva" sp. Bruguière 1789
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Fusus" macsporrani
"Fusus" cf. turbinelloides
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria crossletensis Covacevich and Frassinetti 1986
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Neverita (Grossaulax) cf. pachystoma
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Raeta cf. martini
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 46.7° South, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.4° South, 70.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphic details are not discussed (in english) in text. AGE: Middle-Late Miocene in text based on macrofossil biostratigraphy. Here, tentatively assigned to Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, on the basis of faunal composition.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Covacevich & Frassinetti
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. R, prior to 1980. REPOSITORY: SGO.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, and with taxonomic assignments to species and subgenus resolution.
Metadata
Database number:78532
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-07 22:04:19 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-07 22:04:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26399. V. Covacevich and D. Frassinetti. 1986. El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae). Revista Geológica de Chile 28-29:33-67 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]