Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 44.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Top of the outcrop at the crest of the hill
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica
Collected by A.G. Fischer, Benevides in 1969; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: chemical
Primary reference: A. B. Smith. 1994. Triassic echinoids from Peru. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:177-202 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144533: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2013, edited by Benjamin Brenneis
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Zardinechinus regularis n. sp., Zardinechinus pulchellus, Vinchuscanchaia kieri n. gen. n. sp., Parvicidaris microapicalis n. gen. n. sp.
Zardinechinus regularis n. sp. Smith 1994 sea urchin
Zardinechinus pulchellus Smith 1994 sea urchin
Vinchuscanchaia kieri n. gen. n. sp. Smith 1994 sea urchin
Parvicidaris microapicalis n. gen. n. sp. Smith 1994 sea urchin | |