Where: Amazonas, Peru (5.8° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 60.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fundo el Triunfo Member (Bagua Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: T. Mourier, P. Bengtson, M. Bonhomme, E. Buge, H. Cappetta, J.-Y. Crochet, M. Feist, K. F. Hirsch, E. Jaillard, G. Laubacher, J. P. Lefranc, M. Moullade, C. Noblet, D. Pons, J. Rey, B. Sigé, Y. Tambareau and P. Taquet. 1988. The Upper Cretaceous–Lower Tertiary marine to continental transition in the Bagua Basin, northern Peru: paleontology, biostratigraphy, radiometry, correlations. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 19(3):143-177 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52840: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
aff. Malvales indet. Berchtold and Presl 1820 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Lecythidaceae indet. Poiteau 1825 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur bone and eggshell, incl. HEC 434-1, 434-2 (dinosauroid spherulitic); HEC 435-2 (ornithoid, ratite)
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Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle |