Archaeocete Valley, Paracas, AV-15: Bartonian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Protocetidae indet. Stromer 1908
1 specimen
    = Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
Uhen 2013
    = Pachycetus sp. Van Beneden 1883
van Vliet et al. 2020
    = Pachycetus paulsoni
Gingerich et al. 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Ica
Coordinates: 14.7° South, 75.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.2° South, 67.6° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Paracas
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:73780
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-28 14:53:49 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-28 14:53:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36484. M. D. Uhen, N. D. Pyenson, T. J. DeVries, M. Urbina, and P. R. Renne. 2011. New middle Eocene whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru. Journal of Paleontology 85(5):955-969 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

82775 P. D. Gingerich, A. Amane, and S. Zouhri. 2022. Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. PLoS One 17(10):e0276110 [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/M. Uhen]
42488 M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
72902 H. J. van Vliet, M. Bosselaers, B.-W. Vahldiek, T. Paymans, and I. Verheijen. 2020. Eocene cetaceans from the Helmstedt region, Germany, with some remarks on Platyosphys, Basilotritus and Pachycetus. Cainozoic Research 20(1):121-148 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]