Where: Peru (15.7° S, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 77.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pisco Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit; possibly Pisco Fm. AGE: late Early Pliocene in text, on the basis of K/Ar dates, siliceous microfossil zonation, and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
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 BruguiƩre, 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 89184: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Concholepas kieneri, Xanthochorus eripepomus, Xanthochorus ochuroma, Herminespina saskiae, Acanthina obesa
Concholepas kieneri HupƩ 1854 murex snail
Xanthochorus eripepomus murex snail
Xanthochorus ochuroma DeVries 2005 murex snail
Herminespina saskiae DeVries and Vermeij 1997 murex snail
Acanthina obesa DeVries 2003 unicorn | |
Bivalvia | |