CTA-45: Middle Miocene, Peru
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis sp.
Linck 1790
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1 element | |||||||||
| oral tooth | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Potamotrygonidae
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Potamotrygon sp.
Garman 1877
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15 elements | |||||||||
| "14 teeth and one buckle" | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Characiformes
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Actinopteri
- Characiformes
- Anostomidae
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| "tricuspid teeth" | ||||||||||
| "ca. 15 teeth" | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Characiformes
- Cynodontidae
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| "dominant, ca. 100 teeth" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemis sp.
Wagler 1830
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Reptilia
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Gavialoidea indet.
Brochu 1997
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| "several teeth and fragments" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Dinomyidae
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Dinomyidae indet.
Peters 1873
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1 element | |||||||||
| "fragmentary tooth" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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? Octodontoidea indet.
Waterhouse 1839
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2 elements | |||||||||
| "small incisors" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
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| 1 element | ||||||||||
| "inner cast" | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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| "various teeth" | ||||||||||
| "Fossil wood (ligniteous, silicified)" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Peru |
| Coordinates: | 7.4° South, 75.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.6° South, 71.3° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pebas |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: Coastal channel, tidal influence | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176135 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-01-29 23:31:43 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-29 23:31:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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] |