Where: Peru (14.9° S, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 74.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From terrace deposits overlying the Pisco Fm (early Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: Late Pliocene in text, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From terrace deposit capping Miocene strata.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries and G. J. Vermeij. 1997. Herminespina: New Genus of Neogene Muricid Gastropod from Peru and Chile. Journal of Paleontology 71(4):610-615 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80487: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.04.2008

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