Santiago-Morona road, Oriente Basin, Upper Napo Formation (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi
"Plicatula ferryi" = Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi Coquand 1862 scallop