Quebrada La Totora, Profil 4, Sample 5-4 (Jurassic of Chile)

Where: Chile (28.7° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 33.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with silica

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 35450: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Actinostreon solitarium" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812