Pastaza River, Oriente Basin, Middle Napo Formation (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (1.6° S, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 54.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Napo Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 61913: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Corbis sp." = Fimbria
"Corbis sp." = Fimbria Mühlfeldt 1811 clam