CTA-57 (Miocene to of Peru)

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 72.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mayoan mammal zone, Pebas Formation, Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)

• Mayoan SALMA

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• Oxbow lake

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 176143: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Charales - Characeae
Characeae indet. Agardh 1824
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
"several tooth and fragments"
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Purussaurus sp. Barbosa Rodrigues 1892 crocodilian
teeth
 Serpentes -
Serpentes indet. snake
vertebrae
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
"shell fragments"
Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Octodontobradys sp. Santos et al. 1993 edentate
"two teeth and a claw"
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Interatheriinae indet. Simpson 1945 notoungulate
"lingual fragment, P4"
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
? Simplimus indet. Ameghino 1904 caviomorph
"right lower molar"
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
 Characiformes - Anostomidae
Leporinus sp. Lundberg 1997
"ca. 15 teeth"
 Characiformes - Cynodontidae
cf. Hydrolycus sp. Lundberg 1997
"ca. 100 teeth"