Where: Peru (3.7° S, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 77.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cardalitos Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cardalitos Fm, which overlies the upper part of the Zorritos Fm. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, concretionary, black, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1932. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 5, Miocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 19(68):1-272 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66179: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Turritella abrupta, "Turritella cf. infracarinata" = Turritella (Turritella) infracarinata, "Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira, Turritella filicincta
Turritella abrupta Spieker 1922 turret shell
"Turritella cf. infracarinata" = Turritella (Turritella) infracarinata Grzybowski 1899 turret shell
"Turritella altilira" = Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira Conrad 1857 turret shell
Turritella filicincta Spieker 1922 turret shell | |
Northia guttifera true whelk | |
"Conus (Dendroconus) bravoi" = Conus bravoi
"Conus (Dendroconus) bravoi" = Conus bravoi Spieker 1922 cone shell | |
"Acanthina (Chorus) solida" = Chorus
"Acanthina (Chorus) solida" = Chorus snail | |
Cancellaria sp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Ficus cf. peruviana fig shell | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail
Sinum sp. Röding 1798 moon snail | |
"Architectonica (Architectonica) sexlinearis" = Architectonica nobilis
"Architectonica (Architectonica) sexlinearis" = Architectonica nobilis Röding 1798 sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
"Arca (Diluvarca) dariensis" = Anadara (Rasia) dariensis, "Arca (Cunearca) sp." = Anadara (Cunearca), "Arca (Diluvarca) colomba" = Anadara (Tosarca) columba
"Arca (Diluvarca) dariensis" = Anadara (Rasia) dariensis Brown and Pilsbry 1911 ark
"Arca (Cunearca) sp." = Anadara (Cunearca) Dall 1898 ark
"Arca (Diluvarca) colomba" = Anadara (Tosarca) columba Olsson 1932 ark | |
Ostrea latiareata oyster | |
Pseudomiltha (Zorrita) petersoni, "Lucina (Here) prosoptera" = Here
"Lucina (Here) prosoptera" = Here clam | |
Pitaria (Pitarella) tumbezensis, "Chione (Lirophora) grauensis" = Lirophora, "Chione (Chamelia) grzybowski" = Lirophora (Lirophora) grzybowski, Dosinia lenticulata
Pitaria (Pitarella) tumbezensis venus clam
"Chione (Lirophora) grauensis" = Lirophora venus clam
"Chione (Chamelia) grzybowski" = Lirophora (Lirophora) grzybowski Olsson 1932 venus clam
Dosinia lenticulata venus clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata
"Panopea cf. coquimbensis" = Panopea abbreviata Valenciennes 1839 clam | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) acutisinuata" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) acutisinuata" = Saccella pointed nut clam |