ammonites
DV 423-1 [terrace] (Pliocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (14.9° S, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° S, 74.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From terrace deposits overlying the Pisco Fm (early Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: Pliocene in text, on the basis of molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From terrace deposit capping Miocene strata.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text, but appears to be from shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not described in text, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified based on figured specimens and age.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: Either UWBM, Washington, or MUSM, Peru.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries, L. T. Groves, and M. Urbina. 2006. A new early Miocene Muracypraea Woodring, 1957 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Pisco Basin of southern Peru. The Nautilus 120(3):101-105 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80414: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.04.2008

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