Cuenca del Tirburon: Late/Upper Pliocene, Chile
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Perna sp.
Retzius 1788
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris sp.
Da Costa 1778
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Trochita sp.
Schumacher 1817
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Herminespina mirabilis
(Möricke 1896)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Thaisidae
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Chorus sp.
Gray 1847
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Spheniscus chilensis n. sp.
Emslie and Correa 2003
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70 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Phalacrocoracidae
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Phalacrocorax sp.
Brisson 1760
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Falconidae
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Milvago sp.
Spix 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Otariidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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two species of dolphin | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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small baleen whale | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatidae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Chile |
Coordinates: | 23.4° South, 70.5° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 23.5° South, 69.8° West |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Caleta Herradura de Mejillones | Member: | upper | ||
Stratigraphy comments: upper beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "carbonate" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: marine shell bed | |
Environment: | offshore |
Geology comments: oceanic and neritic, sporadic upwelling, occurred during major transgressive event |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 100174 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-12-01 03:19:04 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 14:53:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-12-01 03:19:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34371. | S. D. Emslie and C. G. Correa. 2003. A new species of penguin (Spheniscidae: Spheniscus) and other birds from the late Pliocene of Chile. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(2):308-316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |