Río Cushabatay [Chonta Fm] (Cretaceous to of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.2° S, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.9° S, 52.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chonta Formation, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 86.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chonta Fm, which overlies the Oriente Fm, and is overlain by the Vivian Fm. AGE: Turonian-Coniacian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale and siltstone

• LITHOLOGY: Shales and siltstones. LITHIFICATION: No basis to determine lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Probably Knetchtel and others. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: B. Kummel. 1948. Geological reconnaissance of the Contamana region, Peru. Geological Society America Bulletin 59:1217-1265 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88671: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Comprehensive for ammonoids, bivalves, and other invertebrates groups; much diversity not reported, however. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tissotiidae
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam