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Mujarún - Culebra, Hualgayoc Province, Cajamarca, Peru
Formation | Mujarún |
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Member | Culebra |
Age: | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Interval | Late Cenomanian |
Lithology | marl |
Number of Collections | 1 |
Number of Occurrences | 1 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Bed 51 | Hualgayoc Province, Cajamarca, Peru | Mujarún - Culebra |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Cajamarca | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | marl/"limestone", "shale", marl/"shale", marl | 15 |
Chulec | 109 - 101 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | marl/"limestone", "limestone", "limestone"/marl, "shale"/"limestone", "limestone"/"shale", marl | 43 |
Inca | 112 - 101 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | shale/"limestone", "limestone", sandstone, "shale", marl, "carbonate" | 90 |
Mujarún - Choro | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | limestone | 1 |
Pariatambo | 105 - 99.6 Ma Cretaceous | limestone, marl | 17 |
Yumagual | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | limestone/marl, marl/"limestone", "limestone", marl | 17 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana species | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Gryphaeidae : Ilymatogyra : Ilymatogyra (Afrogyra) africana | 99.6 - 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Benavides-Caceres V.E. (1956) Cretaceous system in northern Peru, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108 4, 1-493 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!