Manzanares section Man-2 (Jurassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (12.0° S, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 41.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Condorsinga Formation (Pucara Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

• Sponge-coral bank
• Coral wackestone with abundant fragments of bivalves and both broken and in situ coral colonies

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Collected by B. Senowbari-Daryan, G.D. Stanley in 1985; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: chemical, peel or thin section

Primary reference: M. R. Sandy. 1994. Triassic-Jurassic articulate brachiopods from the Pucara Group, central Peru, and description of the brachidial net in the spiriferid Spondylospira. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:99-126 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144436: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.05.2013, edited by Benjamin Brenneis

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Loboidothyris peruviensis n. sp. Sandy 1994