Where: Chile (33.9° S, 71.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 69.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navidad Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. D. Cairns. 2003. A new species of Sphenotrochus (Scleractinia: Turbinoliidae) from the Late Miocene (Tortonian) of Chile. Zoologische Verhandelingen 345(31):79-84 [W. Kiessling/S. Jankowski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84871: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 17.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Sphenotrochus denhartogi n. sp.
Sphenotrochus denhartogi n. sp. Cairns 2003 stony coral |