Suta, Utcubamba Valley (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (6.5° S, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 46.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Jaworski. 1922. Die marine Trias in Süd-America. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 47(Supplement):93-200 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206477: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 18.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Choristoceratidae
"Rhabdoceras curvatum" = Rhabdoceras suessi
"Rhabdoceras curvatum" = Rhabdoceras suessi Hauer 1860 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Metasibiritidae
"Nevadites sutanensis n. sp." = Lissonites sutanensis, "Nevadites lissoni n. sp." = Lissonites lissoni
"Nevadites sutanensis n. sp." = Lissonites sutanensis Jaworski 1922 ceratite
"Nevadites lissoni n. sp." = Lissonites lissoni Jaworski 1922 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Anolcites dieneri n. sp. Jaworski 1922 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
? Arcestes sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Nevadites sp. Smith 1914 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis ochotica Keyserling 1848 scallop
 Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis
"Cardita cf. singularis" = Palaeocardita singularis Healey 1908 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cf. simile Münster 1841 tusk shell