Bahía Inglesa Unit 3: Zanclean, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Pygoscelis grandis n. sp. Walsh and Suarez 2006
Walsh and Suarez 2006 2 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Hemisyntrachelus sp. (Brandt 1873)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Prionace glauca
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 27.1° South, 70.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.9° South, 70.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bahía Inglesa Member:Lechero
Local section:Bahía Inglesa Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: 4.5-2.6 Ma, Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: coarse, conglomeratic
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:69731
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:2007-03-05 06:16:00 Last modified:2022-03-02 04:17:21
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-05 06:16:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23394. G. Bianucci, S. Sorbi, M. E. Suarez and W. Landini. 2006. The southernmost sirenian record in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Late Miocene of Chile. Systematic Palaeontology 5:945-952 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

32342 S. A. Walsh and M. E. Suarez. 2006. New penguin remains from the Pliocene of Northern Chile. Historical Biology 18(2):115-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]