Where: Chile (43.4° S, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 72.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown lithostratigraphic relationships. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of faunal similarities with Tubul Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Frassinetti & Covacevich in 1984

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Presumably D. Frassinetti and V. Covacevich, 1984. REPOSITORY: SGO.

Primary reference: D. Frassinetti and V. Covacevich. 1995. Moluscos del Plioceno Superior marino de Isla Guamblín Archípelago de los Chonos, sur de Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 22(1):47-73 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78556: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.02.2008

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