Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 72.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MZ8-9 zone, Pebas Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• "latest middle Miocene, Pebasian based on molluscs (MZ8-9; Wesselingh et al., 2006: 304; ~12.2-11 Ma). “Marginal Pebas” in terms of depositional environment. Coeval and similar to Porvenir (Nauta/Iquitos) and to the base of Los Chorros Section"

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176134: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

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