Where: Chile (25.5° S, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 31.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Lower-to-middle Sinemurian. The age of the locality is based on numerous ammonites such as Arnioceras sp., Eparietites sp., Euasteroceras sp., Asteroceras sp., and the bivalve Otapiria pacifica.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kate Shaw in 1994

• Repository: MNHN SGO.PV, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile

Primary reference: G. Arratia and H. P. Schultze. 2015. A new fossil actinistian from the Early Jurassic of Chile and its bearing on the phylogeny of Actinistia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35:e983524 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2015

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