Where: Cajamarca, Peru (6.6° S, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 54.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yumagual Formation (Pulluicana Group), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Collection from a 4 m thick shale unit, lying below the Choro Member of the Mujarrun Formation (early Cenomanian) and above the Pariatambo Formation (middle Albian). The member is as much as 760 m thick in the region. The formation contains two biozones, a lower zone with late Albian index taxa, and an upper zone with early Cenomanian fauna.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited at AMNH.

Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56907: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2005

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