Pisco Basin (Spanish: Cuenca de Pisco) is a sedimentary basin extending over 300 kilometres (190 mi) in southwestern Peru.[1] The basin has a 2 kilometres (6,600 ft) thick sedimentary fill, which is about half the thickness of more northern foreland basins in Peru.[2]
The oldest known sediments are the Eocene sandstones of the Caballas Formation, while the youngest deposits, the fossiliferous Pisco Formation, date to the Early Pleistocene.[2][note 1] In relation to present-day, topography the fill of Pisco Basin makes the upper part of the Coastal Cordillera of southern Peru, the coastal plains, the Ica-Nazca Depression and the Andean foothills.[3]
The basin is renowned for hosting various highly fossiliferous stratigraphic units; the Pisco Formation has provided a wealth of marine mammals (including sloths), birds, fish and other groups, as have the Chilcatay, Otuma and Paracas Formations.
^Solís Mundaca, 2018, p.1
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PiscoBasin (Spanish: Cuenca de Pisco) is a sedimentary basin extending over 300 kilometres (190 mi) in southwestern Peru. The basin has a 2 kilometres...
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approximately 640 metres (2,100 ft) thick formation was deposited in the PiscoBasin, spanning an age from the Middle Miocene up to the Early Pleistocene...
2017-08-15. Pisco Formation Altamirano Sierra, Alí J. 2013. Primer registro de pelicano (Aves: Pelecanidae) para el Mioceno tardio de la formacion Pisco, Peru...
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affected many other basins of western South America such as nearby PiscoBasin. Concurrent with Andean uplift it is thought that the basin went from having...
Peru. This flat slab subduction has been associated with the uplift of PiscoBasin and the cessation of Andes volcanism and the uplift of the Fitzcarrald...
middle Eocene (40.4 to 37.2 million years ago) Paracas Formation of the PiscoBasin, Peru. The genus is named after Supay, the Incan god of death and ruler...
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longirostrine sperm whale (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) from the lower Miocene of the PiscoBasin (southern coast of Peru)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (20):...
dolphins from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Chilcatay Formation of the PiscoBasin, Peru. The type species is M. ukupachai. Macrosqualodelphis is distinguished...
longirostrine sperm whale (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) from the lower Miocene of the PiscoBasin (southern coast of Peru)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (20):...
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Urbina, Mario; Renne, Paul R. (2011). "New Middle Eocene Whales from the PiscoBasin of Peru". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (5): 955–69. doi:10.1666/10-162...
Urbina, Mario; Renne, Paul R. (2011). "New Middle Eocene Whales from the PiscoBasin of Peru". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (5): 955–969. doi:10.1666/10-162...
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(Annelida, Polychaeta) reefs from the Miocene Chilcatay and Pisco Formations (East PiscoBasin, Peru)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 107: 103042...
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Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East PiscoBasin (Southern Peru)". Journal of Natural History. 53 (25–26): 1533–1584....
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Urbina, Mario; Renne, Paul R. (2011). "New Middle Eocene Whales from the PiscoBasin of Peru". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (5): 955–69. doi:10.1666/10-162...
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Requiem Shark (Genus Carcharhinus) from the Lower Miocene of Peru (East PiscoBasin, Chilcatay Formation)". Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10...
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