CTA-58 (Miocene to of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 72.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pebas Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

• Marine setting/mangrove

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176144: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides sp. Brotzen 1942
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Haynesinidae
Haynesina sp. Banner and Culver 1978
  -
 Lituolida - Rzehakinidae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon sp. Sars 1872
 Astrorhizacea - Rhizamminidae
Rhizammina sp. Brady 1879
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Karreriella sp. Cushman 1933
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea -
Cerithioidea indet. Férussac 1819 snail
"Cerithium-like imprint in an oyster"
 Sorbeoconcha - Cochliopidae
 Pteropoda - Clionidae
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
"holes in ostreid shells"
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritina cf. roxoi de Greve 1938 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
"calcium carbonate tubes on oysters"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cyprideis sp. Jones 1857 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Hemicytherura sp. Elofson 1941 ostracod
 Podocopida - Leguminocythereidae
Leguminocythereis sp. Howe and Law 1936 ostracod
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888 whiptail stingray
"1 tooth, male"
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Characiformes indet. Regan 1911
"1 hook-like tooth"
Dinophyceae
  -
Spiniferites sp. Mantell 1850