Where: Cajamarca, Peru (6.6° S, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 50.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inca Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Collection from a 5 m thick shale unit, lying below the Chulec Formation (early middle Albian) and 42 m above the base of the section. The Inca Formation is 90 m thick at its type section. The formation was believed to be Aptian by Steinmann (1930), although the present writer believes the unit to be early Albian on the basis of faunal affinities (Parahoplites biozone) and bounding chronostratigraphic relationships.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, black, blue shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

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 56912: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2005

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