Salinas de Otuma: Middle Eocene, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea pejerreyensis
Rivera 1957
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Geography
| Country: | Peru | State/province: | Ica |
| Coordinates: | 13.9° South, 76.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.5° South, 67.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Paracas |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84688 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-11-06 08:57:37 | Last modified: | 2008-11-06 10:57:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-11-06 08:57:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28388. | R. Rivera. 1957. Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica. Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32:165-219 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |