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: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
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 97645: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Melampus "sp. 2" Montfort 1810 snail | |
Bulla punctulata Adams 1850 snail | |
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata
"Crepidula dilatata" = Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell | |
"Thais chocolata" = Stramonita chocolata
"Thais chocolata" = Stramonita chocolata Duclos 1832 murex snail | |
"Anachis varicosa" = Anachis (Costoanachis) varicosa
"Anachis varicosa" = Anachis (Costoanachis) varicosa Gaskoin 1852 snail | |
Nassarius luteostoma Broderip and Sowerby 1829 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Trachycardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera
"Trachycardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera Sowerby 1833 cockle | |
"Macoma grandis" = Psammotreta grandis
"Macoma grandis" = Psammotreta grandis Hanley 1844 tellin clam | |
"Felaniella sericata" = Diplodonta (Felaniella) sericata
"Felaniella sericata" = Diplodonta (Felaniella) sericata Reeve 1850 clam | |
"Chione broggi" = Iliochione subrugosa
"Chione broggi" = Iliochione subrugosa Wood 1828 venus clam | |
Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny 1846 jingle | |
"Argopecten circularis" = Argopecten ventricosus
"Argopecten circularis" = Argopecten ventricosus Sowerby 1842 calico scallop |