Where: Peru (8.8° S, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 20.5° S, 45.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Ladinian stated in text, Norian after Senowbari-Daryan 1990

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Primary reference: H. Rauff. 1938. Über einige Kalkschwämme aus der Trias der peruanischen Kordillere. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 20:177-214 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45512: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 27.10.2004

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