La Tortuga, Sample 95.LT.6, La Tortuga Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (5.3° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 113.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (La Tortuga Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• a narrow forearc basin with high energy, open marine environments

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 62036: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellidora (Tellipiura) peruana
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Macgillavryia sp.
Macgillavryia sp. Rojas et al. 1995 rudist