Uliachin, Cerro de Pasco (Conglomerate) (Jurassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 42.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)

• "Liassic" (Jaworski 1922)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Jaworski. 1922. Die marine Trias in Süd-America. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 47(Supplement):93-200 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206470: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda oxyrhyncha n. sp. Jaworski 1922 pointed nut clam
 Cardiida - Sowerbyidae
Isodonta neotropica n. sp. Jaworski 1922 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardium heberti" = Tutcheria cingulata
"Cardium heberti" = Tutcheria cingulata Goldfuss 1836 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte incae n. sp." = Nicaniella incae
"Astarte incae n. sp." = Nicaniella incae Jaworski 1922 clam