Bed 24, Tembladera section (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.2° S, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 12.9° S, 56.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quillquiñan Group, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, silty limestone

• LITHOLOGY: Shale, yellow, laminated, soft, with interbeds of dark gray, richly fossiliferous slightly silty limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

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 88199: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2009, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids, bivalves, and other invertebrates groups. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
"Broggiiceras humboldti n. sp." = Vascoceras cauvini, "Broggiiceras olssoni n. sp." = Vascoceras cauvini, Vascoceras cf. silvanense
"Broggiiceras humboldti n. sp." = Vascoceras cauvini Chudeau 1909 ammonite
"Broggiiceras olssoni n. sp." = Vascoceras cauvini Chudeau 1909 ammonite
Vascoceras cf. silvanense Choffat 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudoaspidoceras reesidei n. sp.
Pseudoaspidoceras reesidei n. sp. Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pseudotissotiidae
Thomasites fischeri n. sp.
Thomasites fischeri n. sp. Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite