DV 381-5 [terrace]: Middle Pleistocene, Peru
collected by DeVries

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Tegulidae
Tegula tridentata (Potiez and Michaud 1838)
DeVries 2007
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Stramonita chocolata (Duclos 1832)
DeVries 2007
Concholepas concholepas (BruguiƩre 1789)
DeVries 1995
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Incatella cingulata (Sowerby 1825)
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 15.4° South, 75.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.4° South, 75.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From terrace deposits overlying the Pisco Fm (early Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: Pliocene in text, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Uppermost coquina.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coquina. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on figured specimens and age.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text, but appears to be from shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UWBM
Collectors:DeVries
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to taxon described in publication, and supporting publications NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution taxonomic assignments.
Metadata
Database number:80426
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-20 18:33:04 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-04-20 18:33:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27057. T. J. DeVries. 2007. Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):331-351 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

27085 T. J. DeVries. 1995. Concholepas Lamarck, 1801 (Neogastropoda: Muricoidea): A Neogene genus native to South America. The Veliger 38(4):284-297 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
26865 T. J. DeVries. 2007. Three new Pliocene species of Stramonita Schumacher, 1817 (Murcidae: Rapaninae) from Western South America and the evolution of modern Stramonita chocolata (Duclos, 1832). The Veliger 48(4):247-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
27078 T. J. DeVries. 2007. Late Cenozoic Tegulinae (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from southern Peru. The Nautilus 121(4):163-181 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]