CTA-52 (Eocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.3° S, 75.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.9° S, 62.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Pozo Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176141: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet.
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
incisor enamel
 Marsupialia -
Marsupialia indet.
Marsupialia indet. Illiger 1811 marsupial
Paucituberculata or Polydolopimorphia indet. (evergrowing incisor fragment)
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
scutes and bones
Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet.
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
skull fragments
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Characiformes "hook-like teeth", Characiformes indet.
Characiformes indet. Regan 1911
palate fragment
 Siluriformes - Loricariidae
Loricariidae indet.
Loricariidae indet. Gill 1872 catfish
armour scutes