Where: Piura, Peru (4.3° S, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 13.0° S, 110.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: CP10-CP12A foram zone, Pale Greda Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179110: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Gisortia thomasi n. sp." = Megalocypraea thomasi
"Gisortia thomasi n. sp." = Megalocypraea thomasi Olsson 1930 cowry |