Where: Chile (33.8° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Units IV-VI Member (Lo Valdés Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Unit IV: 110 m.

•Unit V and VI: 100 m.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Hallam, L. Biró-Bagóczky, and E. Perez. 1986. Facies analysis of the Lo Valdés Formation (Tithonian-Hauterivian) of the High Cordillera of Central Chile, and the palaeogeographic evolution of the Andean Basin. Geological Magazine 123(4):425-435 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57145: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 06.12.2005

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