Cerro de Moctezuma, Atacama (Jurassic of Chile)
Where: Chile (22.5° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 33.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Toarcian (183.0 - 175.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
• shallow marine limestones
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Prinz. 1991. Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216:147-209 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58547: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 13.02.2006