Montera Formation, Sechura District: Early/Lower Miocene, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara (Rasia) sechurana
(Olsson 1932)
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Woodring 1973 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia peruviana
d'Orbigny 1846
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Woodring 1982 | |||||||||
| SUBSPECIES: Anomia peruviana gabbi | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus bravoi
(Spieker 1922)
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Woodring 1970 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Peru |
| Coordinates: | 5.8° South, 81.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.7° South, 95.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Montera | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: equivalent to upper Zorritos | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow calcareous sandstone |
| Lithology description: yellow sandstones; sometimes well bedded and sometimes massive beds usually become more calcareous above and the upper layers form a hard arenaceous limestone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 66181 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany, A. Hendy | Enterer: | L. Ivany, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-10-03 18:46:33 | Last modified: | 2010-06-09 12:56:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-10-03 18:46:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17487. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 13236 | W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13235 | W. P. Woodring. 1973. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(E):453-539 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
| 13359 | W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |