Where: Peru (30.3° S, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 74.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lomas Terrace Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC DATA: From raised marine terrace at 40 m above present sea level.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors (Ortlieb, DeVries, and Diaz). REPOSITORY: Not stated, but most likely to be Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.

Primary reference: L. Ortlieb, T. DeVries, and A. Diaz. 1990. Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica de Perú 81:127-134 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76647: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2007

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