Loc. 1 - Guafo Island: Late/Upper Pliocene, Chile
collected by Frassinetti & Covacevich 1983

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Clio aff. promaucana
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Scaphander cosmophilus
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices (Euspira) guamblinensis Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995
Frassinetti 2000
recombined as Euspira guamblinensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Gemmula subaqualis
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Adelomelon reconditus Frassinetti 2000
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Trophon parcus
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Semicassis aff. monilifera (Sowerby 1846)
Frassinetti 2000
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Sassia leucostomoides (Sowerby 1846)
Frassinetti 2000
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Nuculana elegans (Hupé 1854)
synonym of Tindariopsis sulcata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Psammotreta tenuicula (Philippi 1887)
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea chiloensis (Philippi 1897)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira aff. chilensis Philippi 1887
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardiocardita volckmanni (Philippi 1887)
synonym of Cyclocardia velutinus
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 43.6° South, 74.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° South, 73.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic relationships. AGE: Late Pliocene, on the basis of index macrofossils. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Offshore, on the basis of faunal composition.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Frassinetti & Covacevich Collection dates:1983
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Presumably D. Frassinetti and V. Covacevich, 1983. REPOSITORY: SGO.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia. Gastropoda not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with species and subgenus resolution assignments.
Metadata
Database number:79201
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-27 20:08:36 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-27 20:08:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26577. D. Frassinetti. 1997. Moluscos del Plioceno Superior marino de Isla Guafo, Sur de Chile. Part 1. Bivalvia. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 46:55-79 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

26590 D. Frassinetti. 2000. Moluscos del Plioceno Superior Marino de Isla Guafo, Sur de Chile. Part II. Gastropoda. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 49:131-161 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]