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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
"Corbis sp." = Fimbria
"Corbis sp." = Fimbria Mühlfeldt 1811 clam |