Where: Chile (46.6° S, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 67.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• unnamed marine sequence; no age given
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. J. Flynn, M. J. Novacek, H. E. Dodson, D. Frassinetti, M. C. McKenna, M. A. Norell, K. E. Sears, C. C. Swisher, III, and A. R. Wyss. 2002. A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15(3):285-302 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 99480: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891 whale |