Also known as near Hacienda Ullujaya, near Cerro La Bruja
Where: Ica, Peru (14.6° S, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 69.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Pisco Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Salas-Grizmondi et al. (in an abstract about marine vertabrates of Cuenca Pisco) do not exclude the possibility that the locality belongs to the late Oligocene of the Fm Chilcatay
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Susan Hendrickson and Peter Larson in 1989 and March 1990
• The specimen was perched upon a pedestal on the surface
Primary reference: R. C. Wood, J. Johnson-Gove, E. S. Gaffney and K. F. Maley. 1996. Evolution and Phylogeny of Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelyidae), with Descriptions of New Fossil Taxa. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2(2):266-286 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189536: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 29.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Natemys peruvianus n. gen. n. sp.
Natemys peruvianus n. gen. n. sp. Wood et al. 1996 leatherback Museo de Historia Natural de Lima, uncatalogued
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