Where: Peru (15.9° S, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Huacllaco Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Huacllaco beds", for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Pliocene, as overlies beds with early Late Pliocene index molluscs and itself contains index taxa of latest Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From units III and IV in upper part of section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: UWBM, Washington.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2005. Pterorytis pacanana new species (Gastropoda: Muricidae): circumstantial evidence for late Pliocene El Niño events in southern Peru. The Nautilus 119(4):164-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80406: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.04.2008

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