Where: Peru (9.0° S, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 78.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: 6500-4300 yr B.P., on the basis of radiocarbon dating. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From beach ridges.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by DeVries & Wells; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: DeVries, T.J., and Wells, L.E., c. late 1980's. RESPOSITORY: Presumably UCMP, Berkeley.
Primary reference: T. J. DeVries and L. E. Wells. 1990. Thermally-anomalous Holocene molluscan assemblages from coastal Peru: evidence for paleogeographic, not climatic change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 81:11-32 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97642: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Petricola robusta" = Choristodon robustus
"Petricola robusta" = Choristodon robustus Sowerby 1834 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Haminoea sp. Turton and Kingston 1830 snail | |
Melampus "sp. 1" Montfort 1810 snail | |
"Cerithidea solida" = Cerithidea pulchra
"Cerithidea solida" = Cerithidea pulchra Adams 1852 horn snail |