Where: Peru (14.9° S, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 74.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From terrace deposits overlying the Pisco Fm (early Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: Late Pliocene in text, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From about 130 m above base of section, in mixture of sand, boulders, and cobbles.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, pebbly, sandy conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.
Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2003. Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 (Gastropoda: Muricidae), an ocenebrine genus edemic to South America. The Veliger 46(4):332-350 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80503: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.04.2008
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Acanthina katzi Fleming 1972 unicorn |