Quebrada Chanchoquin, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.8° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Prinz. 1991. Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216:147-209 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58548: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea marcoui, Montlivaltia "sp. A", Montlivaltia "sp. B"
Isastrea marcoui Koby 1885 stony coral
Montlivaltia "sp. A" Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Form 1
Montlivaltia "sp. B" Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Form 2
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Hispaniastraea ramosa
Hispaniastraea ramosa Turnsek et al. 1975 stony coral
listed as Hispanastrea ramosa
 Scleractinia - Zardinophyllidae
Alloiteausmilia boudaharensis