Cerro de Pasco area, loc. 3 (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 44.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pucara Group, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• "Myophoria" limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Haas. 1953. Mesozoic invertebrate faunas of Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 101:1-328 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68131: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Pustulifer peruvianus Haas 1953 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritariidae
? Trachynerita evoluta Jaworski 1922 snail