Cerro Ballena: Serravallian, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Piscobalaena nana
Pilleri and Siber 1989
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Marx et al. 2017 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MUSM 3292 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Peru | State/province: | Ica |
| Coordinates: | 14.4° South, 75.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.9° South, 72.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pisco |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | hummocky CS,diatomaceous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Geology comments: high sedimentation rate, shallow-to-deep shelf, upwelling | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 78512 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-02-07 12:39:10 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:00:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-02-07 12:39:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26394. | R. Esperante, L. Brand, K. E. Nick, O. Poma, and M. Urbina. 2008. Exceptional occurrence of fossil baleen in shallow marine sediments of the Neogene Pisco Formation, Southern Peru. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257:344-360 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 62385 | F. G. Marx, A. Collareta, A. Gioncada, K. Post, O. Lambert, E. Bonaccorsi, M. Urbina and G. Bianucci. 2017. How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid. Journal of Anatomy 231(2):212-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner] |