Nuevo Horizonte, Pebas Fm. (Miocene to of Peru)

Where: Peru (4.1° S, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 70.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pebas Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; unlithified, blue shale and unlithified, fine-grained sandstone

• The formation was deposited in a giant, long-lived freshwater lake, that was connected to the sea, and experienced episodic marine invasions (Vonhof et al., 1998).
• Dominated by blue smectite clays, immature fine sands and lignites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. J. Vermeij and F. P. Wesselingh. 2002. Neogastropod molluscs from the Miocene of western Amazonia, with comments on marine to freshwater transitions in molluscs. Journal of Paleontology 76(2):265-270 [N. Bonuso/P. Monarrez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142156: authorized by Nicole Bonuso, entered by Pedro Monarrez on 06.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena woodwardi Roxo 1924 snail