Where: Peru (6.8° S, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° S, 49.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inca Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Inca Fm, which is locally overlain by the Chulec Fm (Albian), and overlies the Goyllarisquisga Fm (Albian). AGE: Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Parahoplites nicholsoni zone; placed here in Early Albian on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from 9 m thick sandstone unit, near the lower part of the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, ferruginous, quartzose, green, calcareous sandstone

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 88153: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.04.2009

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