Earth:Bahía Inglesa Formation
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| Bahía Inglesa Formation Stratigraphic range: Miocene–Pleistocene | |
|---|---|
 Bahía Inglesa Formation exposures at Chorrillos beach, far from Bahia Inglesa | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Estratos de Caldera (Caldera Beds) |
| Overlies | Angostura Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate, coquina, sand, sandstone, siltstone, shale |
| Other | Clay, limestone |
| Location | |
| Region | Atacama Region |
| Country |  Chile |
| Extent | Caldera Basin |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Bahía Inglesa |
The Bahía Inglesa Formation (alternatively misspelled "Bahia") is a littoral, sedimentary, and highly fossiliferous geological formation that outcrops across the nearby coastal zones of Caldera, Chile . The unit is part of the greater Caldera Basin and was deposited in deep-shallow water, littoral paleoenvironments. It holds an exquisite fossil record in several localities (such as Cerro Ballena), mostly composed of marine mammals, as well as invertebrate taxa.[1][2][3][4]
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References
- ↑ Pyenson, N. D.; Gutsein, C. S.; Parham, J. F.; Le Roux, J. P.; Chavarria, C. C.; Little, H.; Metallo, A.; Rossi, V. et al. (2014). "Repeated mass strandings of Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden death at sea". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1781). doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.3316. PMID 24573855. Supplemental Material
- ↑ Le Roux, J. P.; Achurra, L.; Henríquez, Á.; Carreño, C.; Rivera, H.; Suárez, M. E.; Ishman, S. E.; Pyenson, N. D. et al. (2016). "Oroclinal bending of the Juan Fernández Ridge suggested by geohistory analysis of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, north-central Chile". Sedimentary Geology 333: 32–49. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.12.003. Bibcode: 2016SedG..333...32L. https://repositorio.uchile.cl/bitstream/handle/2250/139375/Oroclinal-bending-of-the-Juan-Fernandez-Ridge.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
- ↑ Oyanadel-Urbina, P.; De Gracia, C.; Carrillo-Briceño, J. D.; Nielsen, S. N.; Flores, H.; Casteletto, V.; Kriwet, J.; Rivadeneira, M. M. et al. (2021). "Neogene Bony Fishes from the Bahía Inglesa Formation, Northern Chile". Ameghiniana 58 (4): 345−368. doi:10.5710/amgh.26.05.2021.3375. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/206654/1/AMGH.26.05.2021.3375-1.pdf.
- ↑ Püschel, H. P.; Alarcón-Muñoz, J.; Soto-Acuña, S.; Ugalde, R.; Shelley, S. L.; Brusatte, S. L. (2023). "Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile". Journal of Mammalian Evolution 30 (2): 415–460. doi:10.1007/s10914-022-09646-0.
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