Where: Peru (9.4° S, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 13.7° S, 48.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chulec Formation, Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chulec Fm, which overlies the Goyllarisquisga Fm (Aptian-Albian), and is overlain by the Pariatambo Fm (Albian). AGE: Early-Middle Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Bed 12, 27 m thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, gray marl
Size class: macrofossils
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 88173: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.04.2009, edited by Briony Mamo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Exogyra minos oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Prolyelliceras sp. Spath 1930 ammonite | |
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite | |
Protanisoceras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite |