Where: Peru (11.3° S, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 43.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 2.0 m silicified sponge bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica
Collected by B. Senowbari-Daryan, G. Stanley in 1985; reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: chemical,
Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1994. Mesozoic sponges of the Pucara Group, Peru. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:57-74 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36995: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 23.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Zardinechinus stanleyi Smith 1994 sea urchin | |
Cornuaspongia longidepressa | |
Cornuaspongia longidepressa n. gen. n. sp.
Cornuaspongia longidepressa n. gen. n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan 1994 | |
Cornuaspongia reticulata | |
Cornuaspongia reticulata Senowbari-Daryan 1994 | |
Trammeria | |
Demospongiae | |
? Stellispongiella minor n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan 1994 demosponge
? Stellispongiella juninensis Senowbari-Daryan 1994 demosponge
? Stellispongiella ramosa n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan 1994 demosponge |