Ullujaya: Burdigalian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Bianucci et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodelphinidae
Squalodelphinidae indet. (Dal Piaz 1917)
Bianucci et al. 2015
Notocetus vanbenedeni (Moreno 1892)
Bianucci et al. 2015 1 specimen
Huaridelphis raimondii n. gen., n. sp. Lambert et al. 2014
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
? Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936
Bianucci et al. 2015
cf. Kentriodon sp. Kellogg 1927
Bianucci et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea
Physeteroidea indet. Gray 1868
Bianucci et al. 2015
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Diaphorocetus ortegai n. sp. Lambert et al. 2023
Lambert et al. 2023 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Bianucci et al. 2015
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Bianucci et al. 2015
synonym of Testudines
large marine turtle
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru
Coordinates: 14.6° South, 75.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.5° South, 71.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chilcatay
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Originally Early Miocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:124919
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Shalap, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2012-02-29 03:12:56 Last modified:2023-12-22 09:46:12
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-29 03:12:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52751. O. Lambert, G. Bianucci, and M. Urbina. 2014. Huaridelphis raimondii, a new early Miocene Squalodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Chilcatay Formation, Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):987-1004 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

53786 G. Bianucci, M. Urbina, and O. Lambert. 2015. A new record of Notocetus vanbenedeni (Squalodelphinidae, Odontoceti, Cetacea) from the Early Miocene of Peru. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14:5-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
86929 O. Lambert, A. Collareta, A. Benites-Palomino, M. Merella, C. Muizon, R. Bennion, M. Urbina and G. Bianucci. 2023. A new platyrostrine sperm whale from the Early Miocene of the southeastern Pacific (East Pisco Basin, Peru) supports affinities with the southwestern Atlantic cetacean fauna. Geodiversitas 45(22):659-679 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]