Bahía Inglesa: Messinian, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Thalassocnus sp. Muizon and McDonald 1995
Suarez et al. 2011
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Gutstein et al. 2007
original and current combination Phocadae
Mammalia - Cetacea
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821
    = Physeteroidea indet. Gray 1868
Canto et al. 2010
tooth forms 1 & 2
Livyatan sp. Lambert et al. 2010
Suarez et al. 2011
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet. Gray 1850
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Pontoporiidae indet. Gray 1870
Brachydelphis sp. Muizon 1988
Quilodran and Yanez 2000
Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Phocoenidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
Eschrichtiidae indet. Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951
Gutstein et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Balaenidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Gutstein et al. 2015
original and current combination Balanadae
Mammalia - Cetacea
Thalassotherii indet. Bisconti et al. 2013
Gutstein et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
aff. Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède 1804
Gutstein et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Cetotheriidae indet. (Brandt 1872)
Gutstein et al. 2015
aff. Herpetocetus sp. Van Beneden 1872
Gutstein et al. 2015
Reptilia - Odontopterygiformes - Pelagornithidae
Pelagornithidae indet. Fürbringer 1888
Walsh and Hume 2001
Pelagornis chilensis Mayr and Rubilar-Rogers 2010
Suarez et al. 2011
Reptilia - Procellariidae
Puffinini indet.
Yury-Yañez et al. 2008 1 specimen
Reptilia - Diomedeidae
Diomedea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Walsh and Hume 2001
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
cf. Spheniscus sp. Brisson 1760
Walsh and Hume 2001
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula sp. Brisson 1760
Walsh and Hume 2001
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax sp. Brisson 1760
Walsh and Hume 2001
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Walsh and Hume 2001
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
Walsh and Hume 2001
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Cosmopolitodus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
Gutstein et al. 2007
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile State/province:Atacama
Coordinates: 27.1° South, 70.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° South, 69.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Messinian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Messinian
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bahía Inglesa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: latest Miocene (Canto et al, 2008)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Charrier and Croft 2015: Entre los sedimentos más finos exsisten intercalaciones de diatomitas, fosforitas y cenizas volcánicas retrabajadas (Rojo, 1985; Marquardt et al. 2000).
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal, submarine canyon, upper continental slope to outer shelf
Charrier and Croft 2015: Según los autores mencionados, estos depósitos se acumularon en la plataforma continental en ambientes sublitorales a neríticos a profundidades comprendidas entre 0 y 500 m. Algunos niveles clásticos gruesos corresponderían a flujos de detritos provenientes de áreas emergidas
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:55535
Authorizer:M. Uhen, O. Will Enterer:M. Uhen, O. Will
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-10-31 12:16:07 Last modified:2022-03-02 04:15:03
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-31 12:16:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15001. P. Quilodran and C. Marquardt. 2001. Catastro y condiciones de fosilizacion de cetaceos neogenos de la Formacion Bahia Inglesa, 27-28 S Tercera Region, norte de Chile. Ameghiniana 38(4):15R-16R [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

28294 J. Canto, R. Salas-Gismondi, M. Cozzuol and J. Yanez. 2008. The aquatic sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Miocene of North-Central Chile: Biogeographic and ecological implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):918-922 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
34357 J. Canto, J. Yanez, and J. Rovira. 2010. Estado actual del conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de Chile. Estudios Geologicos 66(2):255-284 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
77279 C. S. Gutstein, F. E. Horwitz, A. M. Valenzuela-Toro and C. P. Figueroa-Bravo. 2015. Cetáceos fósiles de Chile: Contexto evolutivo y paleobiogeográfico. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:339-383 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
77316 C. S. Gutstein, D. Rubilar-Rogers, and M. E. Suárez. 2007. Nuevo yacimiento con vertebrados fósiles del Neógeno en el Deiserto de Atacama. Geosur 2007:70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15005 P. Quilodran and J. Yanez. 2000. Descripcion preliminar de una nueva especie de cetaceo fosil (Odontoceti, Pontoporiidae) en el Mioceno de la Formacion Bahia Inglesa, Tercera Region, Chile. Ameghiniana 37(4):32R-32R [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
77303 S. Soto-Acuña, R. E. Yury-Yáñez, M. Sallaberry and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2009. Nuevos cráneos de Sulidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) del Neógeno del Desierto de Atacama, Chile. Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados 24:57-57 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]
77278 M. E. Suarez, M. Cozzuol, C. S. Gutstein, J. Le Roux, J. F. Parham, D. Rubilar Rogers, and N. D. Pyenson. 2011. New discoveries from the Bahia Inglesa Formation bonebed, a Late Miocene marine vertebrate assemblage from the Atacama Desert of Chile. Sixth Triennial Conference on Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in Water 74-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19852 S. A. Walsh and J. P. Hume. 2001. A new Neogene marine avian assemblage from north-central Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):484-491 [O. Will/O. Will]
1401 R. Yury-Yañez, D. Rubilar-Rogers, M. Sallaberry, S. Soto, and Y. M. E. Suárez. 2008. Cráneo de un Puffinini (Aves, Procellariidae) del Mioceno de la Formación Bahía Inglesa, Desierto de Atacama. Boletin Chileno de Ornitología 14:14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]