Where: Peru (13.8° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 69.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otuma Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• Sandstone section disconformably overlies thin-bedded gray siltstones and is truncated above by a fault. Paleontological data suggests a pre-Miocene age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone and poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Identifications made by T.J. DeVires. Unknown repository.
Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 1998. Oligocene deposition and Cenozoic sequence boundaries in the Pisco Basin (Peru). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 11(3):217-231 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41618: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella woodsi Lisson 1925 turret shell | |
"Pseudoliva cf. parinasensis" = Pseudoliva (Buccinorbis) parinasensis
"Pseudoliva cf. parinasensis" = Pseudoliva (Buccinorbis) parinasensis Woods 1922 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster |