SE of Carhuamayo, Junin (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (10.9° S, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 43.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• probably Norian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. R. Cox. 1949. Upper Triassic Mollusca from Peru. Boletin Instituto Geologico del Peru 12:1-48 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71780: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Entomonotis ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
"Eotrapezium occidentale n. sp." = Isocyprina (Eotrapezium)
"Eotrapezium occidentale n. sp." = Isocyprina (Eotrapezium) clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Myophoria paucicostata" = Myophorigonia paucicostata, "Myophoria jaworskii" = Myophorigonia jaworskii
"Myophoria paucicostata" = Myophorigonia paucicostata Jaworski 1922 clam
"Myophoria jaworskii" = Myophorigonia jaworskii Steinmann 1929 clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae