DV 1422 (Pliocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (15.5° S, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 74.0° W)

When: Caracoles Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• DV 1410 = Caracoles Formation stratotype

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; massive, bioturbated, brown, green sandstone and limestone

• green olive-to-brown medium-grained massive and bioturbated sandstones, interbedded with indurated coquina beds containing bivalves, gastropods, and barnacles

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2020. Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Deposits and Age of the highest Marine Terrace from the Sacaco Basin and its Environs (southern Peru). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica del Perú 114:21-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219107: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Creipatella sp.
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanidae indet.
Balanidae indet. Leach 1817 barnacle
balanid barnacles
Bivalvia
 Pandorida - Pandoridae
Pandora sp.
Pandora sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis macha
Ensis macha Molina 1782 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyclinella subquadrata, Eurhomalea fuenzalida, "Protothaca asperrima" = Leukoma asperrima, Pitar sp., Amiantis sp.
Cyclinella subquadrata Hanley 1844 venus clam
"Protothaca asperrima" = Leukoma asperrima Sowerby 1835 venus clam
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
Amiantis sp. Carpenter 1863 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia sp.
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepipatella sp.
Crepipatella sp. Lesson 1830 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp.
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail
 Ichnofossils -
Gyrolithes sp.
Gyrolithes sp. de Saporta 1884
burrows