Paracas Bay: Priabonian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
1 specimen
Muizon 2008
Martinez-Cáceres and Muizon 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 13.9° South, 76.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.8° South, 66.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Priabonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Priabonian
Age range of interval: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Otuma
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: fine sediment
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:63838
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-22 07:05:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-22 07:05:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
12182. R. Marocco and C. d.e. Muizon. 1988. Los vertebrados del Neogeno de La Costa Sur del Perú: Ambiente sedimentario y condiciones de fosilización. Bulletin de l'Institut Frances d'Etudes Andines 17(2):105-117 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

36185 M. Martinez-Cáceres and C. Muizon. 2011. A new basilosaurid (Cetacea, Pelagiceti) from the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene Otuma Formation of Peru. Comptes Rendus Palevol 10:517-526 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28292 C. Muizon. 2008. L'origine et l'histoire évolutive des Cétacés. Comptes Rendus Palevol 417:1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]