CTA-10 (Miocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 73.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pebas Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176128: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
"several teeth & fragments"
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Neoepiblema sp. Ameghino 1889 caviomorph
large p4