AMNH310, Quebrada del Muerto, Amotape Mountains (Carboniferous to of Peru)
Where: Piura, Peru (4.4° S, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 57.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tarma Group, Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• Atokan = late Bashkirian or early Moscovian.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41391: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004
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Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
"Euomphalus browni" = Amphiscapha browni
"Euomphalus browni" = Amphiscapha browni Thomas 1930 snail | |
? Meekospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculana browni" = Polidevcia browni
"Nuculana browni" = Polidevcia browni Thomas 1928 clam | |
Sanguinolites ? peruvianus Thomas 1928 clam | |
Astartella meridionalis Thomas 1928 clam | |
"Aviculopecten multiscalptus" = Heteropecten multiscalptus
"Aviculopecten multiscalptus" = Heteropecten multiscalptus Thomas 1928 scallop | |
Lingulata | |
Lindstroemella aff. patula Girty 1911 | |
Orbiculoidea prietana Chronic 1949 |