INVESTIGADORES
ACOSTA HOSPITALECHE Carolina Ileana Alicia
artículos
Título:
Nuevos restos terciarios de Spheniscidae (Aves, Sphenisciformes) procedentes de la costa del Perú
Autor/es:
7.ACOSTA HOSPITALECHE, C. & M. STUCCHI
Revista:
Revista Española de Paleontología
Editorial:
Madrid
Referencias:
Año: 2005 vol. 20 p. 1 - 5
ISSN:
0213-6937
Resumen:
Two new remains of Spheniscidae from the coast of Perú are studied. One of them, a tarsometatarsus, from the Zamaca Locality, Department of Ica, was exhumed of sediments of the Chilcatay Formation (early Middle Miocene) and it is assigned to Palaeospheniscus sp. This finding constitutes the first mention of Spheniscidae in the Chilcatay Formation, being it the most northern record for the Subfamily Palaeospheniscinae. It allows extending its distribution area to the Middle Miocene of the coast of Perú. The second one, belonging to a tibiotarsus from the Bajada del Diablo Locality, Department of Ica, was collected in the Otuma Formation (Late Eocene ? early Oligocene) and assigned to a Spheniscidae indet. which corresponds to a different species of that one of the tarsometatarsus.
