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 78554: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Malletia sp., "Nuculana elegans" = Tindariopsis sulcata
Malletia sp. des Moulins 1832 clam
"Nuculana elegans" = Tindariopsis sulcata Gould 1852 clam | |
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam |