Where: Peru (7.2° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.9° S, 55.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coñor Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: V. E. Benavides. REPOSITORY: AMNH.
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 158990: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Orthopsis titicacana sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus labiatus" = Mytiloides labiatus
"Inoceramus labiatus" = Mytiloides labiatus Schlotheim 1813 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Coilopoceras jenksi Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite | |
"Hoplitoides inca" = Wrightoceras munieri
"Hoplitoides inca" = Wrightoceras munieri Pervinquiére 1907 ammonite | |
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