Where: Peru (14.5° S, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° S, 69.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otuma Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Otuma Fm, which regionally is unconformably overlain by the Prisco Fm (late Early Miocene to Late Pliocene). AGE: Eocene/Oligocene in text, on the basis of K/Ar dates, siliceous microfossil zonation, and molluscan biostratigraphy. Here assigned to Early Oligocene consistent with other collections from formation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From sandstone beds in unknown part of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: UWMB, Washington.
Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2007. Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):331-351 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80462: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella chira Olsson 1928 turret shell |