Utcubamba Valley (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Amazonas, Peru (6.4° S, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 46.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chambara Formation (Pucara Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: P. Prinz. 1985. Stratigraphie und Ammonitenfauna der Pucara-Gruppe (Obertrias-Unterjura) von Nord-Peru [Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Pucara Group (Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic) in northern Peru]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 188:153-197 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100242: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
Cyrtopleurites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Monotis typica Kiparisova 1936 scallop
Monotis scutiformis Teller 1886 scallop
"Monotis subcircularis" = Monotis (Entomonotis) subcircularis Gabb 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma cf. kiparisovae Tozer 1961 scallop