San Juan Terrace (+30 m): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Prisogaster niger (Wood 1828)
U category
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Tegula luctuosa (d'Orbigny 1841)
C category
recombined as Chlorostoma luctuosum
Tegula euryomphalus (Jonas 1844)
U category
recombined as Chlorostoma euryomphalum
Tegula atra (Lesson 1830)
U category
recombined as Chlorostoma atrum
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Fissurella latimarginata Sowerby 1835
U category
recombined as Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata
Fissurella peruviana Lamarck 1822
U category
recombined as Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea trochiformis (Gmelin 1791)
U category
recombined as Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis
Crepipatella dilatata (Lamarck 1822)
A category
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cingulata Sowerby 1825
U category
recombined as Incatella cingulata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811
C category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Thais chocolata (Duclos 1832)
U category
recombined as Stramonita chocolata
Concholepas concholepas (Bruguiére 1789)
U category
Acanthina monodon (Pallas 1974)
U category
Crassilabrum crassilabrum (Sowerby 1834)
U category
Trophon peruvianus
U category
Xanthochorus buxea (Broderip 1833)
U category
recombined as Xanthochorus buxeus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius dentifer
U category
Nassarius gayi (Kiener 1835)
U category
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Priene scabrum (King 1832)
U category
Priene rude (Broderip 1833)
U category
synonym of Priene scabrum
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Bursa ventricosa (Broderip 1833)
U category
recombined as Crossata ventricosa
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices cf. uber (Valenciennes 1821)
U category
Sinum cymba (Menke 1828)
U category
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Cerithium stercumuscarum Valenciennes 1833
U category
recombined as Cerithium (Thericium) stercumuscarum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita spurca Sowerby 1833
U category
recombined as Cyclocardia spurca
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis macha (Molina 1782)
U category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Pholas chiloensis Molina 1782
U category
recombined as Pholas (Thovana) chiloensis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Ameghinomya antigua
C category
Chione broggi (Pilsbry and Olsson 1943)
U category
synonym of Iliochione subrugosa
Eurhomalea rufa (Lamarck 1818)
C category
Eurhomalea lenticularis (Broderip and Sowerby 1835)
A category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mesodesmatidae
Mesodesma donacium (Lamarck 1818)
U category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia edulis King 1831
A category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium procerum (Sowerby 1833)
U category
recombined as Mexicardia procera
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Tagelus dombeii (Lamarck 1818)
U category
original and current combination Solen dombeii
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Semimytilus edulis
U category
Choromytilus chorus (Molina 1782)
C category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris ovata (Stanton 1895)
C category
original and current combination Pectunculus ovatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Argopecten purpuratus (Lamarck 1819)
U category
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 15.3° South, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.3° South, 75.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:30 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:San Juan Terrace
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC DATA: From raised marine terrace at 30 m above present sea level.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown, but most likely unlithified on the basis of age.
Environment:coastal indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors (Ortlieb, DeVries, and Diaz). REPOSITORY: Not stated, but most likely to be Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropod and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication but with reasonably modern nomenclature and consistent species-level assignments.
Metadata
Database number:76643
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-27 10:36:05 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-11-27 10:36:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25918. L. Ortlieb, T. DeVries, and A. Diaz. 1990. Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica de Perú 81:127-134 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]