CTA-10: Tortonian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Serrasalminae informal pacu-like
Reptilia
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997
"several teeth & fragments"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Neoepiblema sp. Ameghino 1889
1 element
large p4
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 7.4° South, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.8° South, 73.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pebas
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:176128
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-29 23:24:33 Last modified:2022-04-28 05:16:52
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-29 23:24:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57830. 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]