Site 680 ODP Leg 112 Late Pleistocene Peru (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (11.1° S, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 78.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, diatomaceous, gray, green mudstone

• Benthic foraminifers indicate an outer shelf-upper bathyal environment.
• The conspicuous occurrence of mollusks occurred in a diatom- and foraminifer- bearing olive gray mud with minor content of calcareous nannoplankton that belong to nannoplankton Zone NN20 (Gephyrocapsa oceanica Zone) of late Pleistocene age.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: H. Hagn and E. Martini. 1990. A lower Eocene shell bed and some Quaternary mollusks from ODP Leg 112 off Peru. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 112:329-333 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42701: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 04.08.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list compiled from text and figures.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp.
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp.
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram