CTA-66 (Eocene of Peru)

Also known as Contamana; CTA 66

Where: Loreto, Peru (7.3° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 66.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Pozo Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176151: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Amphibia
 Salientia - Pipidae
Pipidae indet. Gray 1825 clawed frog
postcrania
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
teeth and tooth fragments
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
plates
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Stegosimpsonia sp. Vizcaino 1994 armadillo
scute
 Chiroptera -
Microchiroptera indet. Dobson 1875 bat
fragmentary lower tooth
 Theriamorpha -
Pyrotheria indet. Ameghino 1895 placental
small, tooth fragment
 Placentalia -
Notoungulata indet. Roth 1903 notoungulate
jugal tooth fragment
 Rodentia -
Eobranisamys sp. Frailey and Campbell 2004 caviomorph
molar fragments
 Polydolopimorphia -
cf. Wamradolops indet. Goin and Candela 2004 metatherian
p3
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
 Characiformes - Anostomidae
cf. Leporinus sp. Lundberg 1997
teeth
 Teleostei -
Siluriformes indet. catfish
spine
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Trichodactylidae
Trichodactylidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1853 crab
"dozens of claws and carapace fragments"
 Charales - Characeae
Psilochara
  -
Psilochara sp. Grambast 1959
Raskyella
  -
Raskyella pecki
subspecies meridionale