Where: Peru (6.7° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.4° S, 55.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Buchiceras bilobatum ammonoid zone, Celendín Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Celendín Fm, which locally overlies the Cajamarca Fm (Turonian). AGE: Coniacian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Buchiceras bilobatum zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from unit 15, a 9 m thick marl unit, 396 m above base of section. PJW: Buchiceras bilobatum is now considered to be Late Turonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, nodular marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Benavides; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: V. E. Benavides. REPOSITORY: AMNH.
Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88131: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Heterotissotia peroni Lissón 1908 ammonite
Heterotissotia bucheri Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite | |
Buchiceras bilobatum Hyatt 1875 ammonite | |
"Barroisiceras haberfellneri" = Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) haberfellneri
"Barroisiceras haberfellneri" = Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) haberfellneri von Hauer 1866 ammonite |