Las Penas: Langhian, Ecuador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Ziphiidae indet.
Gray 1850
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Geography
| Country: | Ecuador | State/province: | Esmeraldas |
| Coordinates: | 1.1° North, 79.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.3° North, 76.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Viche | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late early and middle Miocene |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: siltstone and claystones | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57965 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-01-11 14:03:45 | Last modified: | 2006-01-11 16:03:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-11 14:03:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15590. | G. Bianucci, W. Landini, G. Valleri, L. Ragaini, and A. Varola. 2005. First cetacean fossil records from Ecuador, collected from the Miocene of Esmeraldas Province. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 111(2):345-350 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |