AMNH1063, Cerro de Pasco (Triassic of Peru)

Also known as FB-9

Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 44.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• thin lenticular beds or bedded lensoid bodies 0.5 to 15 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by A.G. Fischer, Benevides in 1969; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: A. B. Smith. 1994. Triassic echinoids from Peru. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:177-202 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144532: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.05.2013, edited by Benjamin Brenneis

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Triassicidaris peruviensis Smith 1994 pencil urchin
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Diademopsis ex gr. heberti Agassiz and Desor 1847 sea urchin
listed as "locality 2" [sic Kier Mss]
 Euechinoidea - Triadocidaridae
Zardinechinus stanleyi Smith 1994 sea urchin