Pongo de Rentema, Mujarrun Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.2° S, 54.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mujarrun Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61916: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Ostrea ? soleniscus Meek 1893 oyster
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam