CTA-42 (Miocene to of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Ipururo Formation), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176132: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Caimaninae indet. Brochu 1999 crocodilian
"small, mandibular fragment"
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. crocodilian
"several teeth & fragments"
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Trichodactylidae
Trichodactylidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1853 crab
"claw fragments"