Where: Peru (15.5° S, 74.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 15.3° S, 74.0° W (Wright 2013)
When: Caracoles Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• DV 1410 = Caracoles Formation stratotype
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; massive, bioturbated, brown, green sandstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2020. Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Deposits and Age of the highest Marine Terrace from the Sacaco Basin and its Environs (southern Peru). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica del Perú 114:21-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 219106: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
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Aluterus sp. Cloquet 1816 Leatherjacket | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Sinum cymba Menke 1828 moon snail
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
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Xanthochorus xuster DeVries 2005 murex snail | |
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Olivella sp. Swainson 1831 olive snail
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail | |
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Cancellaria buccinoides Sowerby 1832 snail | |
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Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
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Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
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Eurhomalea fuenzalida venus clam
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam
Amiantis sp. Carpenter 1863 venus clam
Cyclinella subquadrata Hanley 1844 venus clam | |
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Choromytilus chorus Molina 1782 mussel | |
| Thecostraca | |
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