Rio Misahualli, Lower Napo Formation, "U" Limestone and Sandstone (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (1.0° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 52.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "U" Limestone and Sandstone Member (Lower Napo Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• uppermost Lower Napo Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

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 61892: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop