Also known as ELJ, Alto Grande
Where: Peru (15.4° S, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 72.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pisco Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• 9.95-7.5 Ma (Muizon and Bellon 1986: 39394); 9-9.5 Ma (Stucchi & Urbina, 2004); older than 8.8 (Ehret et al 2012), ~9.6 to 9.0 Ma (Ochoa et al., 2022)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; diatomaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45486: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nick Pyenson on 25.10.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Tetradontiformes indet." = Tetraodontiformes4
"Tetradontiformes indet." = Tetraodontiformes4 Berg 1940 | |
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Brachydelphis mazeasi n. gen. n. sp. Muizon 1988 toothed whale | |
Australithax intermedia n. gen. n. sp. Muizon 1988 porpoise | |
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"Procarcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon4
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