Where: Ica, Peru (14.5° S, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° S, 74.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: F Member (Pisco Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Messinian age after Lambert et al. 2015 (60319)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; diatomaceous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, original phosphate
Primary reference: R. Esperante, L. Brand, K. E. Nick, O. Poma, and M. Urbina. 2008. Exceptional occurrence of fossil baleen in shallow marine sediments of the Neogene Pisco Formation, Southern Peru. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257:344-360 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78518: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.02.2008, edited by Catalina Pimiento and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mollusca indet.3 Linnaeus 1758 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon5
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Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale | |
Reptilia | |
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