Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 72.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pebas Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• "CTA-44 Middle; middle-late Miocene transition based on pollen (sampled 2011 and 2013).

•Decent recovery. Environment: coastal plain to marginal marine. High abundance of terrestrial organic matter together with a low percentage of dinoflagellates; coastal marine environment. Sediments showing a low thermal alteration. (=CTA-58=CTA-77)"

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176161: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016

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