IN 008 (Miocene of Peru)

Where: Ucayali, Peru (10.6° S, 73.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 71.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ipururo Formation, Laventan (13.8 - 11.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, sandy, conglomeratic sandstone and poorly lithified, silty mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 2005- 2007

• MUSM

Primary reference: J. V. Tejada-Lara, R. Salas-Gismondi, F. Pujos, P. Baby, M. Benammi, S. Brusset, D. Franceschi, N. Espurt, M. Urbina and P.O. Antoine. 2015. Life in the proto-Amazonia: middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia). Palaeontology 1-38 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163843: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 17.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Delphinida indet. Muizon 1984 toothed whale
MUSM 1612
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
cf. Theosodon sp. Ameghino 1887 placental
MUSM 1509, MUSM 1654
 Rodentia -
Octodontoidea indet. Waterhouse 1839 caviomorph
MUSM 1570, MUSM 1567
Acarechimys sp. Patterson 1965 caviomorph
MUSM 1569
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Potamarchus murinus Burmeister 1885 caviomorph
MUSM 1576