Where: Peru (9.4° S, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 49.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chulec Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, shelly/skeletal, gray marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by V.E. Benavides; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 158988: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite | |
"Knemiceras attenuatum" = Glottoceras attenuatum, "Knemiceras raimondii" = Glottoceras raimondii
"Knemiceras raimondii" = Glottoceras raimondii Lisson 1908 ammonite |