Chinimbimi, Oriente Basin, Basal Napo Formation (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (2.6° S, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° S, 50.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Basal Napo Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• lower part of Basal Napo Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61909: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Actinoceramus concentricus Parkinson 1819 clam
"Inoceramus cf. anglicus" = Gnesioceramus anglicus Woods 1911 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae