ammonites
Cerro de Pasco area, Ninacaca, loc. 78 (Triassic of Peru)

Where: Peru (10.9° S, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 42.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pucara Group, Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• light limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Haas. 1953. Mesozoic invertebrate faunas of Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 101:1-328 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68148: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2007