Where: Piura, Peru (5.3° S, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 64.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monte Grande Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• probably Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1941. Cretaceous and Eocene corals from northwestern Peru. Bulletins of American Paleontology 98(26):1-26 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86941: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 25.02.2009

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