Mina Fosforita (Miocene to of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bahía Inglesa Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. S. Gutstein, M. A. Cozzuol, A. O. Vargas, M. E. Suarez, C. L. Schultz and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2009. Patterns of skull variation of Brachydelphis (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Neogene of the Southeastern Pacific. Journal of Mammalogy 90(2):504-519 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 114474: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 15.08.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet.2 Gray 1850 beaked whale
 Cetacea - Kogiidae
Kogiidae indet.2 Miller 1923 pygmy sperm whale
 Cetacea -
cf. Scaldicetus sp.2 Du Bus 1867 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Pliopontos sp.2 Muizon 1983 toothed whale
Brachydelphis jahuayensis3 Lambert and Muizon 2013 toothed whale
Pontistes sp.2 Burmeister 1885 toothed whale
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Piscophoca sp.4 Muizon 1981 seal
Acrophoca sp.4 Muizon 1981 seal
Aves
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Spheniscidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1831 penguin