CTA-50 (Eocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.3° S, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 66.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Pozo Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; 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 176139: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Raskyella
  -
Raskyella pecki
subspecies meridionale
Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Anostomidae
cf. Leporinus sp. Lundberg 1997
Mammalia
 Metatheria -
 Rodentia -
Caviomorpha indet. caviomorph
"enamel fragment and incisor"
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Trichodactylidae
Trichodactylidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1853 crab
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Ilyocyprididae