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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Actinoceramus concentricus, "Inoceramus cf. anglicus" = Gnesioceramus anglicus
Actinoceramus concentricus Parkinson 1819 clam
"Inoceramus cf. anglicus" = Gnesioceramus anglicus Woods 1911 clam | |
"Pycnodonte" navia oyster |