Pongo de Rentema, right bank, Sample 70, Cajamarca-Celendin Beds (Cretaceous of Peru)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides "labiatus" Schlotheim 1813 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gyrostrea sp. Mirkamalov 1963 oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam