Sud-Sacaco West (MTM horizon): Messinian, Peru
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Peru |
| Coordinates: | 15.1° South, 74.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.3° South, 72.7° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous sandy siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:It is not clear whether any fossils have been collected from the MTM horizon at the Sud-Sacaco West locality. See Muizon & DeVries (1985) figure 3 C. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 89521 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-05-28 14:07:20 | Last modified: | 2022-04-12 16:07:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-28 14:07:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16797. | C. Muizon and T. J. DeVries. 1985. Geology and paleontology of late Cenozoic marine deposits in the Sacaco area (Peru). Geologische Rundschau 74(3):547-563 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 46232 | D. J. Ehret, B. J. MacFadden, D. S. Jones, T. J. DeVries, D. A. Foster and R. Salas-Gismondi. 2012. Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru. Palaeontology 55(6):1139-1153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 81296 | D. Ochoa, T. J. DeVries, K. Quispe, A. Barbosa-Espitia, R. Salas-Gismondi, D. A. Foster, R. Gonzales, S. Revillon, R. Berrospi, L. Pairazamán, J. Cardich, A. Perez, P. Romero, M. Urbina, and M. Carré. 2022. Age and provenance of the Mio-Pleistocene sediments from the Sacaco area, Peruvian continental margin. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 116:103799 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |