Casa Saman, Chira Valley (Oligocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (4.9° S, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 74.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chira Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1941. Cretaceous and Eocene corals from northwestern Peru. Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(26):1-26 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86945: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 25.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Cyclomussa concinna n. sp. Wells 1941 stony coral
n. gen.
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora chiraensis n. sp. Wells 1941 stony coral