Where: Piura, Peru (4.7° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 111.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Negritos Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Negritos Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Salina Gp (Middle Eocene). AGE: Regarded as Early Eocene (p. 9), on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, pebbly, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Olsson; reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably A. Olsson. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably PRI

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1928. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 1. Bulletins of American Paleontology 14(52) [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88393: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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