Santa Lagoon, Rio Santa - Haminoea-Melampus assemblage (Holocene of Peru)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Lagoonal shoreline.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic.

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

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic Mollusca. NOMENLCATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Petricola robusta" = Choristodon robustus
"Petricola robusta" = Choristodon robustus Sowerby 1834 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Haminoea sp. Turton and Kingston 1830 snail
 Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
Melampus "sp. 1" Montfort 1810 snail
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Cerithidea solida" = Cerithidea pulchra
"Cerithidea solida" = Cerithidea pulchra Adams 1852 horn snail