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
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 | |
Melongena woodwardi Roxo 1924 snail |