Cerro Colorado (Pisco, Tortonian): Tortonian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Incatella hupei Nielsen in DeVries 2007
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Chimuziphius coloradensis n. gen., n. sp. Bianucci et al. 2016
Bianucci et al. 2016 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Brachydelphis sp. Muizon 1988
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Pacifichelys urbinai n. gen., n. sp. Parham and Pyenson 2010
12 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Sulidae indet. Reichenbach 1849
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 14.3° South, 75.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.7° South, 73.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pisco
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: lower
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine 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:95373
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-04-14 11:04:55 Last modified:2020-09-16 06:31:23
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-14 11:04:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32455. J. F. Parham and N. D. Pyenson. 2010. New sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and iterative evolution of feeding ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):231-247 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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]
73187 G. Bianucci, C. Doi Celma, W. Landini, K. Post, C. Tinelli, C. Muizon, K. Gariboldi, E. Malinverno, G. Cantalamessa, A. Gioncada, A. Collareta, R. Salas-Gismondi, R. M. Varas-Malca, M. Urbina, and O. Lambert. 2016. Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru). Journal of Maps 12(3):543-557 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]