Bahia Inglesa Unit 1 (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 70.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 68.8° W)

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When: Unit 1 Member (Bahía Inglesa Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; fine-grained, medium sandstone and grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. A. Walsh and J. P. Hume. 2001. A new Neogene marine avian assemblage from north-central Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):484-491 [O. Will/O. Will]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68782: authorized by Oliver Will, entered by Oliver Will on 06.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Acrophoca sp. Muizon 1981 seal