Where: Antofagasta, Chile (23.4° S, 70.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 69.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cuesta del Burro Member (La Portada Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• early Middle Pliocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. Ragaini, C. di Celma, and G. Cantalamessa. 2008. Warm-water mollusc assemblages from northern Chile (Mejillones Peninsula): new evidence for permanent El Nino-like conditions during Pliocene warmth?. Journal of the Geological Society 165:1075-1084 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 96707: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum
"Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum Lesson 1830 top snail | |
"Turbo cf. fluctuosus" = Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus
"Turbo cf. fluctuosus" = Turbo (Callopoma) fluctuosus Wood 1828 snail | |
Bulla punctulata Adams 1850 snail | |
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet | |
Incatella cf. cingulatiformis Möricke 1896 turret shell | |
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
"Cerithium stercusmuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercusmuscarum
"Cerithium stercusmuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercusmuscarum Valenciennes 1833 snail | |
Fusinus remondi snail | |
Chorus blainvillei snail | |
Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
Concholepas nodosa Möricke 1896 murex snail
Xanthochorus cassidiformis Blainville 1832 murex snail
Herminespina mirabilis Möricke 1896 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Choromytilus chorus Molina 1782 mussel | |
Chlamys simpsoni scallop
Chlamys vidali scallop
Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck 1819 calico scallop
Argopecten ventricosus Sowerby 1842 calico scallop | |
Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny 1846 jingle | |
Undulostrea megodon Hanley 1846 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
"Glycymeris ovatus" = Glycymeris ovata
"Glycymeris ovatus" = Glycymeris ovata Stanton 1895 clam | |
Mexicardia procera Sowerby 1833 cockle | |
Semele solida Gray 1828 clam | |
Donax peruvianus clam | |
Dosinia ponderosa Gray 1838 venus clam | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam |