Chinimbimi, Oriente Basin, upper Basal Napo Formation (Cretaceous of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (2.6° S, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 52.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Basal Napo Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

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 61910: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon boussingaulti d'Orbigny 1842 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis
"Crassatella maroimensis" = Crassatellites maroimensis White 1887 clam
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Pterotrigonia sp. van Hoepen 1929 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam