La Tortuga, Sample 95.LT.2, El Cenizo 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: El Cenizo Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lowermost part of El Cenizo Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; 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 62037: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Neobuchotrigonia hopkinsi
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Trigonarca meridionalis
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Trochoceramus cf. nahorianensis
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ambigostrea sechura" = Ostrea (Lopha) sechura, Rastellum sp.
"Ambigostrea sechura" = Ostrea (Lopha) sechura Olsson 1944 oyster
Rastellum sp. Faujas-St.-Fond 1799 oyster
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Scabrotrigonia gerthi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"Scabrotrigonia gerthi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Aphrodina pacifica
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella jamaicensis, Veniella aff. cordialis
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Vepricardium (Perucardia) brueggeni
 Cardiida - Icanotiidae
? Icanotia pacifica