Also known as Museo

Where: Peru (13.9° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 69.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otuma Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Faulted sandstone beds rest unconformably upon the middle Eocene siltstones. The section consists of three medium beds of indurated bioclastic sandstone near the base seperated by medium-grained sandstone with fossiliferous concretions. The total section may measure about 10 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone and medium-grained, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Identifications made by T.J. DeVires. Unknown repository.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 1998. Oligocene deposition and Cenozoic sequence boundaries in the Pisco Basin (Peru). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 11(3):217-231 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41622: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.07.2004

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