CTA-58: Middle Miocene - Tortonian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ilyocythere gibba
15 specimens
Echinida indet.
"urchin spines"
Actinopteri - Characiformes
Characiformes indet. Regan 1911
1 element
"1 hook-like tooth"
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888
1 element
"1 tooth, male"
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
"calcium carbonate tubes on oysters"
Gastropoda
Cerithioidea indet. (Férussac 1819)
original and current combination Cerithiacea
"Cerithium-like imprint in an oyster"
Gastropoda - Cochliopidae
? Cochliopidae informal gen. et sp. indet. 1
? Cochliopidae informal gen. et sp. indet. 2
? Cochliopidae informal gen. et sp. indet. 3
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Clionidae
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
"holes in ostreid shells"
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Neritina cf. roxoi de Greve 1938
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leguminocythereidae
Leguminocythereis sp. Howe and Law 1936
13 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Cytheropteron cf. subreticulatum
2 specimens
Hemicytherura sp. Elofson 1941
11 specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cyprideis purperi
23 specimens
Cyprideis sp. Jones 1857
1 specimen
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Protelphidium granosum
6 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides salinasensis
22 specimens
">22 specimens"
Anomalinoides sp. Brotzen 1942
2 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Buccella frigida
8 specimens
Buccella sp.
3 specimens
Rosalina cf. californica
6 specimens
Rosalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
4 specimens
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicidoides sp.
2 specimens
Trochamminidae
Trochammina globigeriniformis
2 specimens
Ataxophragmiidae
Karreriella sp. Cushman 1933
1 specimen
Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
3 specimens
Rhizamminidae
Rhizammina sp. Brady 1879
2 specimens
Haynesinidae
Haynesina sp. Banner and Culver 1978
2 specimens
Lituolida - Rzehakinidae
Miliammina fusca
3 specimens
Rotaliidae
Ammonia beccarii
20 specimens
">200 specimens"
Ammonia inflata
12 specimens
Ammonia parkinsoniana
83 specimens
">83 specimens"
Ammonia sobrina
41 specimens
">41 specimens"
Ammonia tepida
10 specimens
Ammonia aff. ketienzensis
5 specimens
unclassified
Holmanella valmontensis
2 specimens
Dinophyceae
Spiniferites sp. Mantell 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 7.4° South, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.9° South, 72.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Middle Miocene - Tortonian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pebas
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: Marine setting/mangrove
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:176144
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-29 23:38:26 Last modified:2022-04-28 05:12:50
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-29 23:38:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57830. P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]