Where: Peru (15.5° S, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° S, 74.0° 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: Unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments
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. 2005. The Late Cenozoic history of Xanthochorus Fischer, 1884 (GastropodaL Muricidae) in western South America. The Veliger 47(4):259-276 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80530: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mulinia sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Xanthochorus buxeus Broderip 1833 murex snail | |
Cancellaria buccinoides Sowerby 1832 snail | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail |