84-SH-15, Shalypayco (Triassic of Peru)

Also known as Reef 87

Where: Peru (10.9° S, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 43.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• 23m of thin to thicker bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. Stanley in 1984

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: G. D. Stanley, Jr. 1994. Upper Triassic corals from Peru. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:75-98 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144409: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2013, edited by Benjamin Brenneis

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli Winckler 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Distichophyllia norica Frech 1890 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Pinacophyllum peruvianum n. sp. Stanley 1994 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Gablonzeriidae
Gablonzeria profunda Reuss 1854 stony coral