Cerro de Pasco area, loc. 38 (Triassic to of Peru)
Where: Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 43.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pucara Group, Norian to Norian (221.5 - 201.6 Ma)
• Late Norian or Early Rhaetian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
• bituminous 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 68141: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2007