Cerro Los Quesos: Messinian, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Lambert et al. 2009 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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Pimiento and Balk 2015 | |||||||||
recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Nazcacetus urbinai n. gen., n. sp.
Lambert et al. 2009
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Lambert et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Chavinziphius maxillocristatus n. gen., n. sp.
Bianucci et al. 2016
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Bianucci et al. 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Kogiidae
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Platyscaphokogia landinii
Collareta et al. 2020
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Collareta et al. 2020 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Acrophyseter informal sp. MUSM 2182
Lambert et al. 2008
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Lambert et al. 2017 | |||||||||
Acrophyseter sp. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Pontoporiidae
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Brachydelphis mazeasi
Muizon 1988
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Lambert et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Reptilia
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Sacacosuchus sp.
Salas-Gismondi et al. 2022
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Salas-Gismondi et al. 2022 | |||||||||
MUSM 4006 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Peru | State/province: | Ica |
Coordinates: | 14.5° South, 75.7° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 14.8° South, 74.3° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | hummocky CS,diatomaceous siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | lagoonal |
Geology comments: high sedimentation rate, shallow-to-deep shelf, upwelling |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Abundance in sediment: | common |
Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 78518 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion, C. Pimiento |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-02-07 12:48:07 | Last modified: | 2021-06-29 13:24:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-02-07 12:48:07 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26394. | 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] |
Secondary references:
77271 | G. Bianucci, C. Di Celma, A. Collareta, W. Landini, K. Post, C. Tinelli, C. Muizon, G. Bosio, K. Gariboldi, A. Gioncada, E. Malinverno, G. Cantalamessa, A. Altamirano-Sierra, R. Salas-Gismondi, M. Urbina and O. Lambert. 2016. Fossil marine vertebrates of Cerro Los Quesos: Distribution of cetaceans, seals, crocodiles, seabirds, sharks, and bony !sh in a late Miocene locality of the Pisco Basin, Peru. Journal of Maps 12(5):1037-1046 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
60408 | G. Bianucci, C. Di Celma, M. Urbina and O. Lambert. 2016. New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti). PeerJ 4:e2479 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
74047 | A. Collareta, O. Lambert, C. Muizon, A. M. Benites Palomino, M. Urbina and G. Bianucci. 2020. A new physeteroid from the late Miocene of Peru expands the diversity of extinct dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae). Comptes Rendus Palevol 19(5):79-100 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
30755 | O. Lambert, G. Bianucci and K. Post. 2009. A new beaked whale (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the middle Miocene of Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):910-922 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
37752 | O. Lambert, G. Bianucci, and K. Post. 2010. Tusk-bearing beaked whales from the Miocene of Peru: sexual dimorphism in fossil ziphiids?. Journal of Mammalogy 91(1):19-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
60319 | O. Lambert, G. Bianucci, and C. Muizon. 2017. Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179:404-474 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
49081 | C. Pimiento and M. Balk. 2015. The extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: A model for understanding deep-time body size trends of marine apex predators. [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento/C. Pimiento] | |
81650 | R. Salas-Gismondi, D. Ochoa, S. Jouve, P. E. Romero, J. Cardich, A. Perez, T. DeVries, P. Baby, M. Urbina and M. Carré. 2022. Miocene fossils from the southeastern Pacific shed light on the last radiation of marine crocodylians. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20220380:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |