PBDB Collection

IN-DTC 20: Laventan, Peru

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Sebecidae

	Sebecus cf. huilensis Langston 1965	Buffetaut and Hoffstetter 1977
	Snout
	= Sebecidae indet. Savage 1951	Salas-Gismondi et al. 2007
	= Barinasuchus arveloi Paolillo and Linares 2007	Paolillo and Linares 2007
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae

	Uruguaytheriinae indet. Kraglievich 1928

	? Xenastrapotherium sp. Kraglievich 1928

	Xenastrapotherium sp. Kraglievich 1928	Goillot et al. 2011
	Specimens MUSM 1468 and MUSM 1466
unclassified

	Glyptodontidae indet.	Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
	MUSM 1603
Mammalia - Mylodontidae

	Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889	Tejada-Lara et al. 2015
	MUSM 947
see common names

Geography

Country:	Peru	State/province:	Ucayali
Coordinates:	10.6° South, 73.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	11.1° South, 70.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:	Laventan
Age range of interval:	13.7 - 10.9 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Ipururo

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: conglomerates, interpreted as storm deposits channelized in nearshore environment
Environment:	lacustrine - large
Geology comments: Pebas marine-like megalake. Vertebrate remains accumulate mainly in Miocene conglomerates from the Ipururo Formation, inter- preted as storm deposits channelized in nearshore environment (Espurt et al. 2007, 2010)

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: MUSM: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Metadata

Also known as:	Inuya-Mapuya
Database number:	107993
Authorizer:	M. Uhen, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Kouvari	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2011-04-21 02:06:51	Last modified:	2020-11-30 12:09:12
Access level:	the public	Released:	2011-04-21 02:06:51
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

35880.

P.-O. Antoine, R. Salas-Gismondi, P. Baby, M. Benammi, S. Brusset, D. Franceschi, N. Espurt, C. Goillot, F. Pujos, J. Tejada, and M. Urbina. 2007. The middle Miocene (Laventan) Fitzcarrald Fauna, Amazonian Peru. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 8:19-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

46801		E. Buffetaut and R. Hoffstetter. 1977. Découverte du Crocodilien Sebecus dans le Miocene du Pérou oriental. Comptes Rendus l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, Serie D 284:1663-1666 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
46851		G. Goillot, P. O. Antoine, J. Tejada, F. Pujos, and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2011. Middle Miocene Uruguaytheriinae (Mammalia, Astrapotheria) from Peruvian Amazonia and a review of the astrapotheriid fossil record in northern South America. Geodiversitas 33(2):331-345 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cárdenas]
36755		A. Paolillo and O. J. Linares. 2007. Nuevos cocodrilos Sebecosuchia del Cenozoico Suramericano (Mesosuchia: Crocodylia). Paleobiologia Neotropical 3:1-25 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
46725		R. Salas-Gismondi, P.-O. Antoine, P. Baby, S. Brusset, M. Benammi, N. Espurt, D. Franceschi, F. Pujos, J. Tejada and M. Urbina. 2007. Middle Miocene crocodiles from the Fitzcarrald Arch, Amazonian Peru. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 8:355-360 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
53470		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]