Where: Peru (14.6° S, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 71.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chilcatay Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chilcatay Fm, which regionally, unconformably overlies the Otuma Fm (Oligocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Pisco Fm (Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene). AGE: latest Oligocene-early Middle Miocene, for which justification is not stated. Overlain by the Prisco Fm, for which K/Ar dates, siliceous microfossil zonation, and molluscan biostratigraphy supports a Middle Miocene age at its oldest. The collection is placed by the authors within the Early Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by DeVries; reposited in the UWBM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: DeVries. REPOSITORY: UWMB, Washington.

Primary reference: T. J. DeVries. 2007. Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru. Journal of Paleontology 81(2):331-351 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80464: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.04.2008

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