Suta, Utcubamba Valley (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (6.5° S, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 44.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone

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 206476: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cf. simile Münster 1841 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis Healey 1908 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula aff. carantana Bittner 1894 nut clam