Mancora Fm (Eocene of Peru)

Where: Piura, Peru (5.2° S, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mancora Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. J. Devries. 2016. Fossil Cenozoic crassatelline bivalves from Peru: New species and generic insights. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180466: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.07.2016

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