Also known as P.164

Where: Moquegua, Peru (17.6° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° S, 71.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Pampa del Palo terrace. From morpho-stratigraphic unit T7. Assigned to MOI stage 9. Late Pleistocene age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Specimens presumably held in repository given that they were collected and used for aminostratigraphic analyses. Possibly held at Universidad de Atnofagasta (Chile), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) or Universidad Complutense (Spain).

Primary reference: L. Ortlieb, C. Zazo, J.L. Goy, C. Dabrio, and J. Machare. 1996. Pampa del Palo: an anomalous composite marine terrace on the uprising coast of southern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9(5/6):367-379 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43711: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2004

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