Also known as Punta Bravo grits
Where: Piura, Peru (5.2° S, 80.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 73.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mancora Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• basal Oligocene according to Higley 2004.
•Olsson’s (1931) description of the area from which specimens of C. neorhynchus
•were collected corresponds to outcrop mapped as the upper Eocene Mirador Formation (Palacios 1994).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone and brown shale
•may be marginal marine or nonmarine in parts
•sparsely fossiliferous, best horizons near the top
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63) [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55432: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 22.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella conguistadorana turret shell | |
Mancorus burtii snail | |
Acanthina (Chorus) meroensis n. sp.
Acanthina (Chorus) meroensis n. sp. Olsson 1931 snail | |
"Pseudoliva parinasensis" = Pseudoliva (Buccinorbis) parinasensis
| |
Surcula ? mayi Hanna and Israelsky 1925 snail | |
Peruluta mancorensis Olsson 1928 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula mancorensis n. sp.
Nucula mancorensis n. sp. Olsson 1931 nut clam | |
Macoma meroensis n. sp.
Macoma meroensis n. sp. Olsson 1931 tellin clam | |
"Pitaria (Agriopoma) mancorensis n. sp." = Pitar mancorensis, "Clementia peruviana" = Clementia (Egesta) peruviana
"Pitaria (Agriopoma) mancorensis n. sp." = Pitar mancorensis Olsson 1931 venus clam
"Clementia peruviana" = Clementia (Egesta) peruviana Olsson 1928 venus clam | |
"Crassatellites neorhynchus n. sp." = Crassatella neorhynchus
"Crassatellites neorhynchus n. sp." = Crassatella neorhynchus Olsson 1931 clam |