Where: Ecuador (2.9° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 55.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Napo Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• probably Santonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61914: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam | |
Pycnodonte flicki oyster | |
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop |