Where: Peru (6.7° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 56.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Celendín Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Celendín Fm, which locally overlies the Cajamarca Fm (Turonian). AGE: Coniacian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Buchiceras bilobatum zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection from unit 22, a 41 m thick marl unit, 456 m above base of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, nodular, black, yellow, blue, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Benavides; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: V. E. Benavides. REPOSITORY: AMNH.
Primary reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88132: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Desmophyllites gaudama" = Mesopuzosia gaudama
"Desmophyllites gaudama" = Mesopuzosia gaudama Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Bostrychoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite |