La Mesa, Sample 95.LM.1-5, La Mesa Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (5.3° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 109.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (La Mesa Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• a narrow forearc basin with high energy, open marine environments
• shales, sandstones and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62028: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
? Ambigostrea villei
? Ambigostrea villei Coquand 1862 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula harrisiana
 Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca peruviana