Where: Peru (3.7° S, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 79.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tumbes Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone and blue, carbonaceous shale
•upper zone consists of hard, limy sandstones, sandy marls and conglomerates
•second zone consists of hard, blue shales along with some sandstones and conglomerates
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 66180: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.10.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crossata ventricosa Broderip 1833 frog shell |