Salar de Pedernales, Profil 1, Sample 6-3 (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Chile (26.3° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Toarcian to Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone

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 35454: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2003

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomy (Cercomya) undulata Sowerby 1827 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Gresslya peregrina Phillips 1829 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus giganteus Quenstedt 1857 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. rugosum Smith 1817 file clam
Pseudolimea cf. roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Ostreida -
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812