Revision of the Upper Cretaceous rudists from northwestern Peru

Revision of the Upper Cretaceous rudists of northwestern Peru has led to new discoveries and enabled the specification of their taxonomy and stratigraphic locations. Different species have been identified: Biradiolites cf. jamaicensis Trechmann 1924, Radiolites cf. macroplicatus Whitfield 1897, Praebarrettia sparcilirata (Whitfield, 1897) of Late Campanian age, and Macgillavryia nicholasi (Whitfield, 1897) of Middle-Late Maastrichtian age. During the Campanian and Maastrichtian, rudists of Peru show paleobiogeographic affinities with those of the Mexican and Caribbean domains. A paleogeographic route for rudist migrations may have existed at that time along the Caribbean arc and the Curaçao-Ecuador coastline.