Also known as SASw
Where: Peru (15.6° S, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 73.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pisco Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• See Muizon and de Vries (1985). Basal most Pliocene. A tuff layer from the Sacaco level, above the Sud-Sacaco level, has been dated radiometrically (K/Ar) to 3.9 Myr (de Muizon & Bellon, 1980, 1986). Ehret et al (2012) updated the age to Messinian (5.93 Sr isotopes) rather than Zanclean.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; diatomaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: C. Muizon. 1983. Pliopontos littoralis un nouveau Platanistidae Cetacea du Pliocene de la cote peruvienne. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris Serie II (296)1101-1104 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/N. Pyenson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13079: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.01.2002, edited by Nick Pyenson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Odontaspis aff. taurus" = Carcharias taurus10
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Mammalia | |
Ninoziphius platyrostris n. gen. n. sp.8
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Pliopontos littoralis n. gen. n. sp.
Pliopontos littoralis n. gen. n. sp. Muizon 1983 toothed whale | |
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"Arctocephalus lomasiensis" = Hydrarctos lomasiensis14
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Phocidae indet.5, Monachinae indet.10, Hadrokirus martini n. gen. n. sp.1, Piscophoca pacifica n. gen. n. sp.7, Acrophoca longirostris n. gen. n. sp.7
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Thalassocnus littoralis n. sp.6
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Sacacosuchus cordovai n. gen. n. sp.17 Salas-Gismondi et al. 2022 crocodilian MUSM 162 - holotype; referred specimen: MUSM 160
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"Vulturidae indet." = Vulturinae19
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Tetraodontiformes indet.12 Berg 1940 | |
Scombridae indet.10 Rafinesque 1815 | |
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Centropomidae indet.12 Poey 1868 | |
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