La Encanada, Mujarrun Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.1° S, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 53.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mujarrun Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• upper part of Mujarrun Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

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 62026: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Costagyra olisiponensis Sharpe 1850 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea hispanica Orbigny 1850 scallop