Bed 6 (CEA 2), Northeast of Cerro El Arbol, Augusta Victoria area (Permian of Chile)

Where: Chile (24.1° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 49.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro El Arbol Formation, Cisuralian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Instituto de Paleontología, Sección Paleoinvertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (IPI)

Primary reference: G. A. Cisterna, A. F. Sterren, and H. R. Niemeyer. 2014. Las sucesiones carbonáticas marinas del Pérmico Temprano en Antofagasta, norte de Chile. Andean Geology 41:626-638 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163033: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
Pseudozygopleuridae indet. Knight 1930 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia "indet. 1" Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bivalvia "indet. 2" Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
? Heteropecten sp. Kegel and Costa 1951 scallop
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
? Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
 Anomalodesmata -
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
Pinegopora chilensis n. sp. Carrera et al. 2020
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily