Where: Chile (27.0° S, 70.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.6° S, 68.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bahía Inglesa Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• highly articulated cetacean carcasses preserved at Cerro Ballena were rapidly deposited in a barrier-protected shoreface environment at ca. 6.1 Ma (Martinez et al 2025)

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•the strata in Cerro Ballena were deposited at a time period in between the deposition of the ELJ and MTM horizons of the Pisco Formation. Thus, we infer a Late Miocene age (or Late Tortonian to Early Messinian stage) for the Bah ́ıa Inglesa Formation part of the section at Cerro Ballena

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; fine sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. D. Pyenson, C. S. Gutstein, J. F. Parham, J. P. Le Roux, C. C. Chavarría, H. Little, A. Metallo, V. Rossi, A. M. Valenzuela-Toro, J. Velez-Juarbe, C. M. Santelli, D. R. Rogers, M. A. Cozzuol and M. E. Suárez. 2014. Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1781):20133316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154642: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.02.2014

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