Mine K-11: Early Pliocene, Nicaragua
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Nicaragua |
| Coordinates: | 11.8° North, 86.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.6° North, 85.6° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Salto |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: light olive gray to grayish yellow green smectitic shale overlain by oyster-bearing very pale orange and pale yellowish orange, hematitic ocquinoid limestones and bioclastic sands | |
| Environment: | delta plain |
| Geology comments: marine regressive shelf to a deltaic environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | San Rafael del Sur | ||
| Database number: | 86947 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-02-25 12:24:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-02-25 12:24:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12164. | S. G. Lucas, R. Garcia, E. Espinoza, G. E. Alvarado, L. Hde Mendoza and E. Vega. 2008. The fossil mammals of Nicaragua. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:417-429 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 35128 | S. G. Lucas, S. A. McLeod, L. G. Barnes, G. E. Alvarado, R. Garcia and E. Espinoza. 2009. A baleen whale from the Pliocene of Nicaragua. Revista Geologica de America Central 41:17-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |