Pongo de Rentema, left bank, Sample 159, Celendin Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)
Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 56.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Celendin Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• bed-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 62020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Euptera aff. zambiensis Dartevelle 1957 oyster | |
Plicatula flattersi Coquand 1862 scallop |