Pongo de Rentema, left bank, Sample 157, Celendin Formation (Cretaceous of Peru)

Where: Peru (5.5° S, 78.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.0° S, 48.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Celendin Formation, Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified shale 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 62019: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Pseudocucullaea lens Solger 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Nicaisolopha nicaisei Coquand 1862 oyster