Suta, Horizon 4 (Jurassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (6.5° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° S, 44.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Canadensis ammonoid zone, Suta Formation, Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone

• fine-bedded siltstones and well bedded silicic limestone beds and some layers of calcareous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)

Primary reference: A. Hillebrandt. 1994. The Triassic/Jurassic Boundary and Hettangian biostratigraphy in the area of the Utcubamba Valley (Northern Peru). Géobios Mémoire Spécial 17:297-307 [J. Pálfy/D. Juhász]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209057: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Dorina Juhász on 24.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Psiloceratidae
Badouxia canadensis, Sunrisites cf. peruvianus
Badouxia canadensis Frebold 1951 ammonite