La Brea, Pan de Aymar (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (4.7° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 109.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pananga limestone Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 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 86917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 24.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia peruviana n. sp. Wells 1941 stony coral