Where: Peru (4.7° S, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 109.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Talara Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Saman or Talara Formation. AGE: Regarded as lower Upper Eocene on the basis of faunal similarity. Foraminifera suggest an upper Eocene age. Olsson states that the Talara and Saman rocks can be referred to the Upper Eocene and in terms of the European section, to the Bartonian and Ludian.....respectively? In most places the Talara Formation can be divided into three members, a lower shale (Talara Shale), a middle sandstone (Talara Sandstone), and an upper shale (Pozo Shale). In a complete section the Talara Formation has an average thickness of about 2800 ft. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca.

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81874: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008

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