Where: Peru (7.3° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 72.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pebas Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; 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 176158: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polychaeta | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Ostracoda | |
Perissocytheridea acuminata ostracod | |
Cyprideis amazonica, Cyprideis aulakos, Cyprideis cyrtoma, Cyprideis pebasae, Cyprideis sulcosigmoidalis, Cyprideis "sp. 2"
Cyprideis amazonica ostracod
Cyprideis aulakos ostracod
Cyprideis cyrtoma ostracod
Cyprideis pebasae ostracod
Cyprideis sulcosigmoidalis ostracod
Cyprideis "sp. 2" Jones 1857 ostracod | |
Cytheridella danielopoli ostracod | |
Foraminifera | |