Uliachin, Cerro de Pasco (Conglomerate) (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 44.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Jaworski. 1922. Die marine Trias in Süd-America. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 47(Supplement):93-200 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206466: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae
Physocardia sp. Wöhrmann 1894 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Phaenodesmia peruana n. sp. Jaworski 1922 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
"Dentalium cf. undulatum" = Plagioglypta undulata
"Dentalium cf. undulatum" = Plagioglypta undulata Münster 1841 tusk shell