Quebrada Pinte, Profil 5, Sample 4-160 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (29.0° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Collection methods: mechanical

Primary reference: M. Aberhan. 1992. Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile. Beringeria 5:1-174 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35440: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.12.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Praesaccella) ovum Sowerby 1825 pointed nut clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonotis semiplicata Hyatt 1894 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillaria pallas Leanza 1942 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys "sp. A" Röding 1798 scallop
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia "sp. B" Bruguière 1789 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812