Where: Peru (7.1° S, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buchiceras bilobatum ammonoid zone, Celendin Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, calcareous shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.E. Benavides; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105520: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 21.02.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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