Where: Peru (5.3° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 109.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (La Mesa Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified marl 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 62034: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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