Where: Peru (4.8° S, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 102.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mancora Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Middle Oligocene, Mirador facies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1937. Coral studies, part 1: Two new species of fossil corals. Bulletins of American Paleontology 23(79):237-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122891: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2012

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