Where: Peru (15.6° S, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 73.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pisco Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Presumably from the Pisco Fm. AGE: Early Pliocene in text, on the basis of K/Ar dates, siliceous microfossil zonation, and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From between 4 and 5 m in section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coquina

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2008. Pliocene and Pleistocene Fissurella Bruguiére, 1789 (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) from Southern Peru. The Veliger 50(2):129-148 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89176: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.05.2009

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