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Chanarcillo - Nantoco - Lower, Copiap贸, Copiap贸 Province, Atacama, Chile

GroupChanarcillo
FormationNantoco
MemberLower
Age:136 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
IntervalLate Hauterivian
Tectonic SettingBack-arc basin
Lithologymudstone/wackestone
Number of Collections1
Number of Occurrences1

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Quebrada de MelendezCopiap贸, Copiap贸 Province, Atacama, ChileChanarcillo - Nantoco - Lower

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Chanarcillo - Totoralillo130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
marl, mudstone6

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Crioceratites sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Crioceratitidae : Crioceratites136.4 - 130 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Mourgues F. A. (2004) Advances in ammonite biostratigraphy of the marine Atacama basin (Lower Cretaceous), northern Chile, and its relationship with the Neuquen basin, Argentina, Journal of South American Earth Sciences 17, 3-10
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