La Mesa, Sample 95.LM.25, La Mesa Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)
Where: Peru (5.3° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 109.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (La Mesa Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone
• a narrow forearc basin with high energy, open marine environments
• massive rudist- and gastropod-bearing shelf limestones
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62032: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006
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Taxonomic list
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| Bivalvia | |
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Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
? Macgillavryia sp. Rojas et al. 1995 rudist | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella
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