Tumbes [Tumbes Fm] (Miocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (3.8° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 78.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tumbes Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Tumbes Formation, for which lithsotratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Miocene in Woodring (1982). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• LITHIFICATION: Unknown. LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data provided, but assumed to be siliciclastic.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96489: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa miscellaneously mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Strombina (Strombina) zorritoensis1
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Narona trema2
Narona trema2 Olsson 1932 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Raeta undulata
Raeta undulata Gould 1851 clam
1Jung 1989; 2Landau et al. 2012