Where: Peru (14.6° S, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.5° S, 71.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Chilcatay Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Chilcatay Formation, latest Oligocene to early Miocene (Dunbar et al. 1990; DeVries 1998, 2001). Although the precise locality of the holotype is unknown, the referred specimen MUSM 1401 originates from within the Chilcatay Formation, several meters under the Chilcatay Formation - Pisco Formation disconformity, at Ullujaya, a few kilometers north to the type locality. Based on a published section a short distance from Ullujaya, the Chilcatay Formation layers of this locality (which preserves the fossilized remains of other marine vertebrates including mysticetes, kentriodontids, the squalodelphinids Huaridelphis raimondii Lambert, Bianucci & Urbina, 2014 and Notocetus vanbenedeni Moreno, 1892, and a stem physeteroid) are tentatively dated to the early Miocene (Alván De la Cruz 2008; Lambert et al. 2014; Bianucci et al. 2015).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous siltstone and sandstone
•The Chilcatay Formation comprises marine diatomaceous and tuffaceous sandy siltstones, bioclastic sandstones and, along the base, massive sandstones, and large boulders of crystalline basement rocks.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. Lambert, C. de Muizon, and G. Bianucci. 2015. A new archaic homodont toothed cetacean (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Peru. Geodiversitas 37(1):79-108 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167732: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chilcacetus cavirhinus n. gen. n. sp. Lambert et al. 2015 toothed whale | |
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cf. Makaira sp.3 Lacépède 1802
aff. Makaira sp.1 Lacépède 1802 | |
aff. Thunnus sp.1 South 1845 | |
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Carcharhinidae indet.3, Physogaleus contortus1, Negaprion brevirostris1, Carcharhinus cf. leucas1, Carcharhinus brachyurus1
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Lamnidae indet.3, Isurus oxyrinchus1, "Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1, "Carcharocles chubutensis" = Carcharodon subauriculatus1
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"Odontaspidae indet." = Odontaspididae3
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