Loc. 9 - Guafo Island: Late/Upper Pliocene, Chile
collected by Frassinetti & Covacevich 1983
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella chilensis
Sowerby 1846
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
recombined as Incatella chilensis | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Sassia leucostomoides
(Sowerby 1846)
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Semicassis aff. monilifera
(Sowerby 1846)
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Adelomelon reconditus
Frassinetti 2000
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Trophon covacevichi
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Trophon vetulus
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Penion diversum
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices (Euspira) guamblinensis
Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995
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Frassinetti 2000 | ||||||
recombined as Euspira guamblinensis | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Thyasiridae
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Thyasira aff. chilensis
Philippi 1887
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardiocardita volckmanni
(Philippi 1887)
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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
Also known as: | Loc. 021083.3 | ||
Database number: | 79209 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-02-27 20:28:16 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-02-27 20:28:16 |
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] |