Where: Atacama, Chile (26.7° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 33.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Quebrada Monardes Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• Probably Berriasian based on Martínez et al. (2015 [see Alarcón-Muñoz et al. 2020])
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; lithified sandstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. M. Bell and M. Suarez. 1989. Vertebrate fossils and trace fossils in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous red beds in the Atacama region, Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2(4):351-357 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136132: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 20.11.2012
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