Where: Peru (3.9° S, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zorritos Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphic unit not stated in text; possibly from Zorritos or Negritos Fms. AGE: Not stated in text; Zorritos=Early Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a sand near the base of shale series.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gester in 1914; reposited in the CAS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: G. C. Gester, 1914. REPOSITORY: CAS, California

Primary reference: G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky. 1925. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of Peru. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(2):37-75 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93743: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.02.2010

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