Where: Bolivia (18.8° S, 66.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 41.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miraflores Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Age based on the ammonite Neolobites.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. Braniša and R. Hoffstetter. 1966. Nouvelle contribution à l'étude de la paléontologie et de l'âge du Groupe Puca (Crétacé de Bolivie). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2e Série 38:301-310 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 229871: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.04.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
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Neolobites sp. Fisher 1882 ammonite
Neolobites kummeli Benavides-Caceres 1956 ammonite | |
| Bivalvia | |
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? Arcomya sp. Agassiz 1838 clam | |
|
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
|
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
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? Aphrodina sp. Conrad 1869 venus clam | |
|
Opis sp. Defrance 1824 clam | |
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Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
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Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
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Pseudoptera "sp. 1" Meek 1873 oyster
Pseudoptera "sp. 2" Meek 1873 oyster
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster | |
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? Phelopteria sp. Stephenson 1953 pearl oyster | |
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Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
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Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
| Echinoidea | |
|
? Micropedina sp. Cotteau 1866 sea urchin | |
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Trochotiara pucaensis Fritzsche 1924 sea urchin | |