Also known as P.164
Where: Moquegua, Peru (17.6° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° S, 71.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Pampa del Palo terrace. From morpho-stratigraphic unit T7. Assigned to MOI stage 9. Late Pleistocene age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Specimens presumably held in repository given that they were collected and used for aminostratigraphic analyses. Possibly held at Universidad de Atnofagasta (Chile), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) or Universidad Complutense (Spain).
Primary reference: L. Ortlieb, C. Zazo, J.L. Goy, C. Dabrio, and J. Machare. 1996. Pampa del Palo: an anomalous composite marine terrace on the uprising coast of southern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9(5/6):367-379 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43711: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata Sowerby 1825 turret shell | |
"Calyptraea trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis, Crepipatella dilatata
"Calyptraea trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
"Cerithium stercusmuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercusmuscarum
"Cerithium stercusmuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercusmuscarum Valenciennes 1833 snail | |
Polinices cf. uber Valenciennes 1821 moon snail | |
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Acanthina monodon Pallas 1974 unicorn | |
Nassarius dentifer snail
Nassarius gayi Kiener 1835 snail | |
Cancellaria buccinoides Sowerby 1832 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Choromytilus chorus Molina 1782 mussel | |
Mulinia edulis King 1831 clam | |
Eurhomalea lenticularis, "Chione broggi" = Iliochione subrugosa
Eurhomalea lenticularis Broderip and Sowerby 1835 venus clam
"Chione broggi" = Iliochione subrugosa Wood 1828 venus clam |