Site 684 ODP Leg 112 Late Pleistocene Peru (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (9.0° S, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 79.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, graded, bioturbated, fine-grained, gray, green sandstone and unlithified, phosphatic claystone

• This unit consists of olive gray graded beds of bioturbated fine sand having clay beds containing foraminifers, phosphorite, and few bone fragments. Mollusks were encountered at several levels. According to calcareous nannoplankton, these occurrences belong to nannoplankton Zone NN20 (Geophyrocapsa oceania 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 42703: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 04.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list compiled from text and figures.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinidae indet.
Buccinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 true whelk
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