Pongo de Rentema, Conor Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)
Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 55.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Conor Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified shale and lithified limestone
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 61997: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Ilymatogyra africana Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Pseudoptera cf. viana oyster | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Plagiostoma grenieri Coquand 1862 file clam | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
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Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam | |
Aphrodina sp. Conrad 1869 venus clam |