Also known as Cerro Pan de Azúcar, Cerro Mono

Where: Moquegua, Peru (17.2° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° S, 65.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Upper Moquegua Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• This collection had a L. Oligocene-E. Miocene age assigned, the upper Moquegua formation has a Deseadan age.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: Museo de Historia Natural, Lima

Primary reference: B. J. Shockey, R. Salas, R. Quispe, A. Flores, E. J. Sargis, J. Acosta, A. Pino, N. J. Jarica, and M. Urbina. 2006. Discovery of Deseadan fossils in the upper Moquegua Formation (late Oligocene - ?early Miocene) of southern Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):205-208 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59940: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 22.04.2006

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