Bahía Inglesa Unit 2 (Miocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (27.1° S, 70.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 68.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Bonebed Member (Bahía Inglesa Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Sirenian tooth from the base of the Bonebed Member (Unit 2).

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

• phospatite bonebed

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: S. Walsh and D. Naish. 2002. Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: A new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile. Palaeontology 45(4):821-842 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69730: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.03.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1, Carcharodon carcharias1
"Cosmopolitodus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1 Agassiz 1838 white shark
Carcharodon carcharias1 Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.3
Crocodyliformes indet.3 crocodilian
SGO−PV−833 (tibia fragment) and SGO−PV 836 (tooth)
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
? Nanosiren sp.2
? Nanosiren sp.2 Domning and Aguilera 2008 dugong
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet., Monachinae indet., Acrophoca sp., "Pisciphoca aff. pacifica" = Piscophoca
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
Monachinae indet. Trouessart 1897 seal
Acrophoca sp. Muizon 1981 seal
"Pisciphoca aff. pacifica" = Piscophoca seal
 Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Brachydelphis sp.1
Brachydelphis sp.1 Muizon 1988 toothed whale
1Bianucci et al. 2006; 2Domning and Aguilera 2008; 3Walsh and Suárez 2005