Pongo de Rentema (Cretaceous to of Peru)

Also known as Pongo de Tentema

Where: Amazonas, Peru (5.5° S, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 60.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fundo El Triunfo Member (Bagua Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• unnamed "Lower Red Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, conglomeratic sandstone

• "microconglomeratic beds"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: T. Mourier, É Jaillard, G. Labaucher, C. Noblet, A. Pardo, B. Sigé, and P. Taquet. 1986. Découverte de restes dinosauriens et mammalien d’âge crétacé supérieur à la base des couches rouges du synclinal de Bagua (Andes nord-péruviennes): aspects stratigraphiques, sédimentologiques et paléogéographiques concernant la régression fini-crétacée [Discovery of dinosaur and mammalian remains of Upper Cretaceous age at the base of the red beds of the Bagua syncline (northern Peruvian Andes): stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and paleogeographic aspects of the end-Cretaceous regression]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 8e série 2(1):171-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51672: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005, edited by Franco Aspromonte

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Taxonomic list

 Charales - Porocharaceae
 Charales - Characea
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmophyllites sp.2 Spath 1829 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Lenticeras baltai2 Lissón 1908 ammonite
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Pucabatis cf. hoffstetteri2 Cappetta 1975 stingray
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 dinosaur
eggshell, incl. HEC 380-6. 7 (geckonoid)
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Titanosauridae indet.3 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
7 vertebrae, long bones
 Plesiosauria -
? Pliosauroidea indet.1 Welles 1943 plesiosaur
MUSM 3894 (vertebrae)