DV 1032-2 [terrace] (Pliocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (15.9° S, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From terrace deposits overlying the Pisco Fm (early Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: Late Pliocene in text, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text, but appears to be from shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not described in text, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on figured specimens and age.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2007. Late Cenozoic Tegulinae (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from southern Peru. The Nautilus 121(4):163-181 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80541: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxon described in publication, and supporting publications NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution taxonomic assignments.
Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Prisogaster valenciai DeVries 2006 snail
 Trochoidea - Tegulidae
Agathistoma patagonicum d'Orbigny 1835 snail
 Neogastropoda - Thaisidae
Chorus giganteus Lesson 1830 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Acanthina triangularis DeVries 2003 unicorn
Concholepas camerata DeVries 2000 murex snail
Xanthochorus xuster DeVries 2005 murex snail