CTA-54 (Paleocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.2° S, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 62.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Huchpayacu Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; 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 176125: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Lamprothamnium sp., Brevichara sp., Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
"bone fragment – probably actinopterygian fish"
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Charales - Feistiellaceae
Nitellopsis supraplana, Nitellopsis (Tectochara) merianii
Nitellopsis supraplana
subspecies sulcata
 Charales - Characeae
Characeae indet., Peckisphaera cf. portezueloensis, Pseudolatochara sp., Sphaerochara huaroensis, Sphaerochara inconspicua
Characeae indet. Agardh 1824
 Charales - Characea
Platychara cf. perlata, Chara subcylindrica, ? Chara sp., Peckichara sp., Peckichara cf. varians
? Chara sp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort
Peckichara sp. Grambast 1957
Peckichara cf. varians Grambast 1957