Where: Peru (11.5° S, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 111.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty, calcareous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: H. Hagn and E. Martini. 1990. A lower Eocene shell bed and some Quaternary mollusks from ODP Leg 112 off Peru. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 112:329-333 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42706: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 04.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Limidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 file clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Coccolithophyceae | |
Transversopontis sp. Hay et al. 1966 | |
"Discolithina sp." = Pontosphaera
"Discolithina sp." = Pontosphaera Lohmann 1961 | |
Globothalamea | |
Gavelinella sp. Brotzen 1942 | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotaliacea sp. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Siphogenerina sp. Schlumberger 1882 |