Where: Chile (37.8° S, 73.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 71.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Navidad Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Navidid Fm (here referred to as Millongue Fm), which is conformably overlain by the Ranquil Fm (Late Miocene). AGE: Dated as Eocene by Garcia (1968), and variably as Miocene by Nielsen in subsequent publications. Finger et al. (2007) suggest a Late Miocene age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Nielsen

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: S. N. Nielsen. REPOSITORY: SPO, Chile.

Primary reference: S. N. Nielsen and T. J. DeVries. 2002. Tertiary Xenophoridae (Gastropoda) of western South America. The Nautilus 116(3):71-78 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80404: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.04.2008

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