Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 55.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cajamarca-Celendin Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• The lower part of the Celendin Formation seems to correspond to the upper part of the Cajamarca Formation. Therefore, this unit informally is called the Cajamarca-Celendin Beds.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified shale and 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 62000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mytiloides "labiatus" Schlotheim 1813 clam | |
Hyotissa lombardi oyster
Gyrostrea sp. Mirkamalov 1963 oyster | |
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |