Quebrada Chanchoquin, Atacama: Late/Upper Sinemurian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Lithotrochus humboldtii (von Buch 1839)
Gründel 2001 5 fragments
fragments, juvenile
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) idea (d'Orbigny 1850)
Aberhan 2004 1 individual
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Groeberellidae
Groeberella neuquensis (Groeber 1924)
Pérez et al. 2008 1 individual
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon costatum
8 individuals
original and current combination Lopha (Actinostreon)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea (Bilobissa) tricarinata
10 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 28.8° South, 70.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.3° South, 31.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:open shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,original calcite,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:mechanical,acetic,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: collected since 1966
Metadata
Database number:95071
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-06 01:28:33 Last modified:2017-08-04 14:36:27
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-06 01:28:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32459. M. Aberhan. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 13:3-115 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]

Secondary references:

32394 M. Aberhan. 2004. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part II. Subclass Anomalodesmata. Beringeria 34:117-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]
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]
32375 E. Pérez, M. Aberhan, R. Reyes and A. Hillebrandt. 2008. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part III. Order Trigonioida. Beringeria 39:51-102 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]