Where: Chile (28.2° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 31.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical, acetic,
Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1994. Early Jurassic Bivalvia of northern Chile. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia, and Isofilibranchia. Beringeria 13:3-115 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 95444: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.04.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa
"Plicatula (Harpax) rapa" = Harpax rapa Bayle and Coquand 1851 scallop | |
Gryphaea (Gryphaea) darwini oyster | |
Grammatodon (Grammatodon) sulcatus n. sp. Aberhan 1994 clam |