Archaeocete Valley, Paracas, AV-15: Bartonian, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Protocetidae indet.
Stromer 1908
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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Uhen 2013 | ||||||
= Pachycetus sp.
Van Beneden 1883
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van Vliet et al. 2020 | ||||||
= Pachycetus paulsoni
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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Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||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] |