Also known as Punta Bravo grits

Where: Piura, Peru (5.2° S, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mancora Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• basal Oligocene according to Higley 2004.

•Olsson’s (1931) description of the area from which specimens of C. neorhynchus

•were collected corresponds to outcrop mapped as the upper Eocene Mirador Formation (Palacios 1994).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone and brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63) [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55432: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 22.10.2005

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