Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

• Published in: Journal of Maps
• Main Authors: Bianucci, Giovanni, Di Celma, Claudio, Landini, Walter, Post, Klaas, Tinelli, Chiara, de Muizon, Christian, Gariboldi, Karen, Malinverno, Elisa, Cantalamessa, Gino, Gioncada, Anna, Collareta, Alberto, Gismondi, Rodolfo-Salas, Varas-Malca, Rafael, Urbina, Mario, Lambert, Olivier
• Other Authors: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Pisa, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Università degli Studi di Camerino = University of Camerino (UNICAM), Museo de Historia Natural de Lima (MHN), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique = Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (IRSNB / RBINS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: marine vertebrates; paleontological heritage; Peru; Miocene; fossils; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Pisco; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02612682; https://hal.science/hal-02612682/document; https://hal.science/hal-02612682/file/173-2015%20Bianucci%20et%20al%20%281%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2015.1048315

International audience Hundreds of fossil marine vertebrates cropping out at Cerro Colorado (Pisco Basin, Peru) are identified and reported on a 1:6500 scale geological map and in a joined stratigraphic section. All the fossils are from the lower strata of the Pisco Formation, dated in this area to...