Where: Piura, Peru (4.1° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 100.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Heath Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• basal Heath, or Caleto Mero shales
•base of late Oligocene
•Pleurophopsis zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, concretionary shale
•shale contains large concretions
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63) [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64566: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 10.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pleurophopsis peruviana n. sp., Pleurophopsis lithophagoides n. sp.
Pleurophopsis peruviana n. sp. Olsson 1931 clam
Pleurophopsis lithophagoides n. sp. Olsson 1931 clam | |
"? Myrtaea cooki n. sp." = Myrtea
"? Myrtaea cooki n. sp." = Myrtea clam |