CTA-74 (Oligocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.8° S, 67.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chambira Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (27.3 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176155: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Anostomidae
Anostomidae indet.
tricuspid teeth
Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Caviomorpha indet. caviomorph
"femur, distal"
 Marsupialia -
Paucituberculata indet. Ameghino 1894 marsupial
"evergrowing incisor"