Pongo de Rentema, Sample R27, Romiron Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° S, 54.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Romiron Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 61917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"? Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
Neithea dutrugei Dutrugei 1862 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Poromyida - Poromyidae
"Psilomya sp." = Liopistha (Psilomya)
"Psilomya sp." = Liopistha (Psilomya) Meek 1876 clam
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam