San Juan Terrace (+30 m) (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (15.3° S, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 75.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Juan Terrace Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC DATA: From raised marine terrace at 30 m above present sea level.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unknown, but most likely unlithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors (Ortlieb, DeVries, and Diaz). REPOSITORY: Not stated, but most likely to be Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru.

Primary reference: L. Ortlieb, T. DeVries, and A. Diaz. 1990. Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica de Perú 81:127-134 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76643: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropod and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication but with reasonably modern nomenclature and consistent species-level assignments.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Prisogaster niger Wood 1828 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
"Tegula luctuosa" = Chlorostoma luctuosum, "Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum, "Tegula euryomphalus" = Chlorostoma euryomphalum
"Tegula luctuosa" = Chlorostoma luctuosum d'Orbigny 1841 top snail
"Tegula atra" = Chlorostoma atrum Lesson 1830 top snail
"Tegula euryomphalus" = Chlorostoma euryomphalum Jonas 1844 top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
"Fissurella latimarginata" = Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata, "Fissurella peruviana" = Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana
"Fissurella latimarginata" = Fissurella (Fissurella) latimarginata Sowerby 1835 snail
"Fissurella peruviana" = Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana Lamarck 1822 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
"Calyptraea trochiformis" = Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepipatella dilatata Lamarck 1822 slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata
"Turritella cingulata" = Incatella cingulata Sowerby 1825 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
"Cerithium stercumuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercumuscarum
"Cerithium stercumuscarum" = Cerithium (Thericium) stercumuscarum Valenciennes 1833 snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva peruviana Lamarck 1811 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius gayi Kiener 1835 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Concholepas concholepas Bruguiére 1789 murex snail
"Thais chocolata" = Stramonita chocolata Duclos 1832 murex snail
Acanthina monodon Pallas 1974 unicorn
Crassilabrum crassilabrum Sowerby 1834 murex snail
Trophon peruvianus murex snail
"Xanthochorus buxea" = Xanthochorus buxeus Broderip 1833 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Priene scabrum" = Priene scabrum, "Priene rude" = Priene scabrum
"Priene scabrum" = Priene scabrum King 1832 triton shell
"Priene rude" = Priene scabrum King 1832 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
"Bursa ventricosa" = Crossata ventricosa
"Bursa ventricosa" = Crossata ventricosa Broderip 1833 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices cf. uber Valenciennes 1821 moon snail
Sinum cymba Menke 1828 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris ovata Stanton 1895 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Argopecten purpuratus Lamarck 1819 calico scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Choromytilus chorus Molina 1782 mussel
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
"Pholas chiloensis" = Pholas (Thovana) chiloensis
"Pholas chiloensis" = Pholas (Thovana) chiloensis Molina 1782 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Eurhomalea rufa Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Eurhomalea lenticularis Broderip and Sowerby 1835 venus clam
"Chione broggi" = Iliochione subrugosa Wood 1828 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mesodesmatidae
Mesodesma donacium Lamarck 1818 clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia edulis King 1831 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Trachycardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera
"Trachycardium procerum" = Mexicardia procera Sowerby 1833 cockle
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Tagelus dombeii Lamarck 1818 clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis macha Molina 1782 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita spurca" = Cyclocardia spurca
"Cardita spurca" = Cyclocardia spurca Sowerby 1833 clam