Morro Mejillones locality, Mejillones Peninsula (Pliocene of Chile)
Where: Chile (23.1° S, 70.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 69.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morro Mejillones Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 3.4 Ma
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate
• Sandy beach and nearby rocky shore
• Carbonate-rich sandy matrix and consists mainly of barnacle clusters and debris
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: S. N. Nielsen. 2013. A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87(1):33-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142300: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.04.2013
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
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Acar pusilla Sowerby 1833 miniature ark | |
Tagelus dombeii Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Semele solida Gray 1828 clam | |
Diplodonta inconspicua Philippi 1845 clam | |
Leukoma antiqua venus clam | |
Chama pellucida Broderip 1835 jewel box | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices cf. panamaensis Recluz 1844 moon snail | |
Caecum chilense snail | |
Priene scabrum King 1832 triton shell | |
Macron escalonia snail | |
Concholepas camerata DeVries 2000 murex snail
Xanthochorus cassidiformis Blainville 1832 murex snail
Acanthina triangularis DeVries 2003 unicorn
Crassilabrum crassilabrum Sowerby 1834 murex snail | |
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
Nassarius gayi Kiener 1835 snail | |
Austrofusus steinmanni true whelk
Austrofusus fontainei d'Orbigny 1841 true whelk | |
"Mitra orientalis" = Mitra (Atrimitra) orientalis
"Mitra orientalis" = Mitra (Atrimitra) orientalis Griffith and Pidgeon 1834 mitre shell | |
Chorus doliaris snail | |
Crucibulum quiriquinae, "Trochita cf. trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis, Crepipatella dilatata
Crucibulum quiriquinae slipper shell
"Trochita cf. trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
Incatella cingulatiformis Möricke 1896 turret shell | |
Fissurella spp. Bruguière 1789 snail
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
Liotia cancellata Klipstein 1843 snail | |
Chlorostoma quipua DeVries 2007 top snail
Chlorostoma atrum Lesson 1830 top snail | |
Bulla punctulata Adams 1850 snail |