Where: Ecuador (1.0° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 54.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower "M-2" Limestone Member (Middle Napo Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61893: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |