List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Peru

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Peru.

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
	La Huaca Formation	Lujanian	[1]
	Pampa La Brea Formation	Lujanian	[2]
	Lomas Terrace Formation	Late Pleistocene	[3]
	Máncora Tablazo Formation	Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene	[4]
	Huacllaco Formation	Late Pliocene	[5]
	La Planchada Formation	Late Pliocene	[6]
	San Juan Terrace Formation	Late Pleistocene	[7]
	San Sebastián Formation	Late Pleistocene	[8]
	Taime Formation	Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene	[9]
	Pisco Formation	Early Miocene-Late Pliocene (Colloncuran-Chapadmalalan)	[10]
Contamana Group	Madre de Dios Formation	Chasicoan-Huayquerian	[11][12]
	Miramar Formation	Late Miocene (Huayquerian)	[13]
	Tumbes Formation	Late Miocene	[14]
	Ipururo Formation	Middle Miocene (Laventan-Montehermosan)	[15]
	Cardalitos Formation	Middle Miocene	[16]
	Navidad Formation	Middle Miocene	[17]
	Camana Formation	Late Oligocene-Middle Miocene	[18]
	Montera Formation	Early-Middle Miocene (Colhuehuapian)	[19]
	Pebas Formation	Early-Late Miocene	[20]
	Zorritos Formation	Early Miocene	[21]
	Bala Formation	Santacrucian	[22]
	Chilcatay Formation	Chattian-Burdigalian (Deseadan-Friasian)	[23]
	Chambira Formation	Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (Deseadan)	[24]
	Upper Moquegua Formation	Deseadan	[25]
	Heath Formation	Late Oligocene	[26]
	Caballas Formation	Early Eocene-Early Miocene	[27]
	El Milagro Formation	Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican)	[28]
	Paracas Formation	Lutetian-Priabonian (Mustersan-Divisaderan)	[29]
	Pozo Formation	Middle Eocene-Early Oligocene (Mustersan-Divisaderan)	[30]
	Máncora Formation	Late Eocene-Early Oligocene	[31]
	Otuma Formation	Priabonian-Rupelian (Tinguirirican)	[32]
	Yumaque Formation	Priabonian (Divisaderan)	[33]
Chira Group	Cone Hill Formation	Priabonian	[34]
	Mirador Formation	Priabonian	[35]
	Saman Formation	Late Eocene	[36]
Salina Group	Pale Greda Formation	Lutetian	[37]
	Salina Formation	Lutetian	[38]
	Yahuarango Formation	Mid-Late Eocene (Mustersan)	[39]
	Restin Formation	Bartonian	[40]
	Parinas Formation	Bartonian	[41]
	Talara Formation	Bartonian	[42]
	Terebratula Formation	Bartonian	[43]
	Verdun Formation	Bartonian	[44]
	Cajaruro Formation	Ypresian-Bartonian	[45]
	Negritos Formation	Ypresian	[46]
	Mogollón Formation	Itaboraian-Riochican	[47]
	Muñani Formation	Late Paleocene-Early Eocene (Itaboraian-Riochican)	[48]
	Chacras Formation	Early Eocene	[49]
	Atascadero Formation	Eocene	[50]
	Carnoas Shale	Eocene	[51]
	Lobitos Formation	Eocene	[52]
	Huchpayacu Formation	Paleocene	[53]
	Couches Rouges Formation	Paleogene	[54]
	Monte Grande Formation	Maastrichtian	[55]
	Radiolite Sandstone	Maastrichtian	[56]
	El Cenizo Formation	Early Maastrichtian	[57]
	La Tortuga Formation	Early Maastrichtian	[58]
Vilquechico Group	Upper Vilquechico Formation	Late Campanian-Maastrichtian	[59]
	Chota Formation	Campanian-Maastrichtian	[60]
	La Mesa Formation	Campanian	[61]
	Chonta Formation	Albian-Coniacian	[62]
	Vivián Formation	Santonian-Campanian	[63]
	Celendín Formation	Coniacian-Santonian	[64]
	Cajamarca Formation	Turonian	[65]
Quillquiñán Group	Coñor Formation	Turonian	[66]
	Romirón Formation	Cenomanian	[67][68]
	Oriente Formation	Albian-Turonian	[69]
Pulluicana Group	Mujarrún Formation	Late Cenomanian	[70][71]
	Yumagual Formation	Late Albian-Cenomanian	[72]
	Raya Formation	Albian-Cenomanian	[73]
	Crisnejas Formation	Early-Mid Albian	[74]
	Chulec Formation	Albian	[75]
	Inca Formation	Albian	[76]
	Pariatambo Formation	Albian	[77]
	Agua Caliente Formation	Aptian-Albian	[78]
	Esperanza Formation	Aptian	[79]
Yura Group	Hualhuani Formation	Early Cretaceous	[80]
Lima Group	Atocongo Formation	Late Hauterivian-Early Barremian	[81]
	Carhuaz Formation	Valanginian-Barremian	[82]
	Santa Formation	Valanginian	[83]
Chicama Group	Punta Moreno Formation	Late Tithonian	[84]
	Sapotal Formation	Late Tithonian	[85]
	Chocolate Formation	Sinemurian	[86]
Pucara Group	Condorsinga Formation	Sinemurian	[87]
	Aramachay Formation	Hettangian	[88]
	Chambara Formation	Norian	[89]
Mitu Group		Artinskian-Kungurian	[90]
	Copacabana Formation	Permian	[91]
Tarma Group		Bashkirian-Moscovian	[92]
	Ambo Formation	Viséan	[93]
	Cocachacra Shale	Early Devonian	[94]
	Lampa Formation	Silurian-Early Devonian	[95]
	Calapuja Formation	Sandbian	[96]
	Contaya Formation	Darriwilian	[97]
	San José Formation	Floian	[98][99]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Bolivia
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ecuador
• Geology of Peru
• South American land mammal age
• Gomphothere fossils in Peru

References

1. Córdova Aguilar, 2009, p.74
2. Córdova Aguilar, 2009, p.75
3. Lomas Terrace Formation at Fossilworks.org
4. Máncora Tablazo Formation at Fossilworks.org
5. Huacllaco Formation at Fossilworks.org
6. La Planchada Formation at Fossilworks.org
7. Juan Terrace Formation at Fossilworks.org
8. San Sebastián Formation at Fossilworks.org
9. Taime Formation at Fossilworks.org
10. Pisco Formation at Fossilworks.org
11. Madre de Dios Formation at Fossilworks.org
12. Contamana Group at Fossilworks.org
13. Miramar Formation at Fossilworks.org
14. Tumbes Formation at Fossilworks.org
15. Ipururo Formation at Fossilworks.org
16. Cardalitos Formation at Fossilworks.org
17. Navidad Formation at Fossilworks.org
18. Camana Formation at Fossilworks.org
19. Montera Formation at Fossilworks.org
20. Pebas Formation at Fossilworks.org
21. Zorritos Formation at Fossilworks.org
22. Bala Formation at Fossilworks.org
23. Chilcatay Formation at Fossilworks.org
24. Chambira Formation at Fossilworks.org
25. Upper Moquegua Formation at Fossilworks.org
26. Heath Formation at Fossilworks.org
27. Caballas Formation at Fossilworks.org
28. El Milagro Formation at Fossilworks.org
29. Paracas Formation at Fossilworks.org
30. Pozo Formation at Fossilworks.org
31. Máncora Formation at Fossilworks.org
32. Otuma Formation at Fossilworks.org
33. Yumaque Formation at Fossilworks.org
34. Cone Hill Formation at Fossilworks.org
35. Mirador Formation at Fossilworks.org
36. Saman Formation at Fossilworks.org
37. Pale Greda Formation at Fossilworks.org
38. Salina Formation at Fossilworks.org
39. Yahuarango Formation at Fossilworks.org
40. Restin Formation at Fossilworks.org
41. Parinas Formation at Fossilworks.org
42. Talara Formation at Fossilworks.org
43. Terebratula Formation at Fossilworks.org
44. Verdun Formation at Fossilworks.org
45. Cajaruro Formation at Fossilworks.org
46. Negritos Formation at Fossilworks.org
47. Mogollón Formation at Fossilworks.org
48. Muñani Formation at Fossilworks.org
49. Chacras Formation at Fossilworks.org
50. Atascadero Formation at Fossilworks.org
51. Carnoas Shale at Fossilworks.org
52. Lobitos Formation at Fossilworks.org
53. Huchpayacu Formation at Fossilworks.org
54. Couches Rouges Formation at Fossilworks.org
55. Monte Grande Formation at Fossilworks.org
56. Radiolite Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
57. El Cenizo Formation at Fossilworks.org
58. La Tortuga Formation at Fossilworks.org
59. Upper Vilquechico Formation at Fossilworks.org
60. Bagua (=Chota) Formation at Fossilworks.org
61. La Mesa Formation at Fossilworks.org
62. Chonta Formation at Fossilworks.org
63. Vivián Formation at Fossilworks.org
64. Celendín Formation at Fossilworks.org
65. Cajamarca Formation at Fossilworks.org
66. Coñor Formation at Fossilworks.org
67. Quillquiñán Group at Fossilworks.org
68. Romirón Formation at Fossilworks.org
69. Oriente Formation at Fossilworks.org
70. Mujarún Formation at Fossilworks.org
71. Mujarrún Formation at Fossilworks.org
72. Yumagual Formation at Fossilworks.org
73. Raya Formation at Fossilworks.org
74. Crisnejas Formation at Fossilworks.org
75. Chulec Formation at Fossilworks.org
76. Inca Formation at Fossilworks.org
77. Pariatambo Formation at Fossilworks.org
78. Agua Caliente Formation at Fossilworks.org
79. Esperanza Formation at Fossilworks.org
80. Moreno et al., 2012, p.75
81. Atocongo Formation at Fossilworks.org
82. Carhuaz Formation at Fossilworks.org
83. Santa Formation at Fossilworks.org
84. Punta Moreno Formation at Fossilworks.org
85. Sapotal Formation at Fossilworks.org
86. Chocolate Formation at Fossilworks.org
87. Condorsinga Formation at Fossilworks.org
88. Aramachay Formation at Fossilworks.org
89. Chambara Formation at Fossilworks.org
90. Mitu Group at Fossilworks.org
91. Copacabana Formation at Fossilworks.org
92. Tarma Group at Fossilworks.org
93. Ambo Formation at Fossilworks.org
94. Cocachacra Shale at Fossilworks.org
95. Lampa Formation at Fossilworks.org
96. Calapuja Formation at Fossilworks.org
97. Contaya Formation at Fossilworks.org
98. Gutiérrez Marco & Villas, 2007, p.548
99. San José Formation at Fossilworks.org

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Sechura Basin

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Chambira Formation

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Chilcatay Formation

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Chota Formation

• Chacaltana, César; Alexandra Lucytania Benites Cañote; Waldir Valdivia, and Marco Chumpitaz. 2014. La formación Chota en la Cuenca Bagua: Evaluación e implicancias del criterio de clasificación litoestratigráfico, 1–4. Congreso Peruano de Geología. Accessed 2017-08-15.

Iñapari Formation

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• De Iullis, Gerardo; Timothy J. Gaudin, and Matthew J. Vicars. 2011. A new genus and species of nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Nothrotheriidae) from the Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of Peru. Palaeontology 54. 171–205.

Madre de Dios Formation

• Frailey, Carl David, and Kenneth E. Campbell Jr.. 2012. Two New Genera of Peccaries (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from Upper Miocene Deposits of the Amazon Basin. Journal of Paleontology 86. 852–877. Accessed 2019-02-15.
• Prothero, Donald R.; Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr; Brian L. Beatty, and Carl D. Frailey. 2014. New late Miocene dromomerycine artiodactyl from the Amazon Basin: implications for interchange dynamics. Journal of Paleontology 88. 434–443. Accessed 2019-02-12.
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Mogollón Formation

• Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Guillaume Billet; Rodolfo Salas Gismondi; Julia Tejada Lara; Patrice Baby; Stéphane Brusset, and Nicolas Espurt. 2015. A New Carodnia Simpson, 1935 (Mammalia, Xenungulata) from the Early Eocene of Northwestern Peru and a Phylogeny of Xenungulates at Species Level. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 22. 129–140. Accessed 2019-02-13.
• Quispe Alcalá, David Ricardo. 2010. Evaluación Geológica de la Formación Mogollón en el Yacimiento Leones – Cuenca Talara (MSc. thesis), 1–87. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. Accessed 2017-10-18.

Moquegua Formation

• Alván, Aldo; Katerin Ramírez; Hilmar von Eynatten; István Dunkl; Javier Jacay, and Gabriela Bertone. 2017. Evolución Geológica de las Cuencas de Antearco del Sur de Perú (Moquegua y Camaná-Mollendo): Proveniencia Sedimentaria y Análisis de Facies en Rocas Cenozoicas. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica del Perú 112. 53–77. Accessed 2018-09-10.
• Shockey, Bruce J.; Guillaume Billet, and Rodolfo Salas Gismondi. 2016. A new species of Trachytherus (Notoungulata: Mesotheriidae) from the late Oligocene (Deseadan) of Southern Peru and the middle latitude diversification of early diverging mesotheriids. Zootaxa 4111. 565–583. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Muñani Formation

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Paracas Formation

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Pisco Formation

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• Brand, Leonard; Mario Urbina; Arthur Chadwick; Thomas J. DeVries, and Raul Esperante. 2011. A high resolution stratigraphic framework for the remarkable fossil cetacean assemblage of the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 31. 414–425. Accessed 2017-10-01.
• Collareta, Alberto; Olivier Lambert; Christian De Muizon; Mario Urbina, and Giovanni Bianucci. 2017. Koristocetus pescei gen. et sp. nov., a diminutive sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru. Fossil Record 20. 259–278. Accessed 2019-02-12.
• Lambert, Olivier; Giovanni Bianucci; Mario Urbina, and Jonathan H. Geisler. 2017. A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179. 919–946. Accessed 2019-02-12.
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• Marx, Felix G., and Naoki Kohno. 2016. A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert. Royal Society Open Science 3. 160542. Accessed 2019-02-12.
• Poma Porras, Orlando; Edgard Horna Santillán, and Raúl Esperante. 2009. Baleen Fósil (Cetacea: mysticeti) en Sedimentos de la Cuenca Marina del Neógeno en la Formación Pisco, al Sur del Perú. Revista de Investigación Universitaria 1. 84–97. Accessed 2017-09-04.
• Ramassamy, Benjamin; Olivier Lambert; Alberto Collareta; Mario Urbina, and Giovanni Bianucci. 2018. Description of the skeleton of the fossil beaked whale Messapicetus gregarius: searching potential proxies for deep-diving abilities. Fossil Record 21. 11–32. Accessed 2019-02-11.
• Solís Mundaca, Flavio Alejandro. 2018. Bioestratigrafía e implicancias paleoceanográficas de las diatomeas de la sección Cerro Caucato, Formación Pisco, Ica, Peru (MSc. thesis), 1–158. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Accessed 2018-09-10.
• Stucchi, Marcelo; Steven D. Emslie; Rafael M. Varas Malca, and Mario Urbina Schmitt. 2015a. A new late Miocene condor (Aves, Cathartidae) from Peru and the origin of South American condors. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35. e972507. Accessed 2019-02-13.
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Pozo Formation

• Antoine, P.O.; L. Marivaux; D.A. Croft; G. Billet; M. Ganerod; C. Jaramillo; T. Martin; M. Orliac, and J. Tejada, A. J. Altamirano, F. Duranthon, G. Fanjat, S. Rousse and R. Salas Gismondi. 2011. Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279. 1319–1326. Accessed 2019-02-14.
• Boivin, Myriam; Laurent Marivaux; Maëva J. Orliac; François Pujos; Rodolfo Salas Gismondi; Julia V. Tejada Lara, and Pierre-Olivier Antoine. 2017. Late middle Eocene caviomorph rodents from Contamana, Peruvian Amazonia. Palaeontologia Electronica 20. Article number 20.1.19A. Accessed 2019-02-12.

Soncco Formation

• Carlotto, Víctor. 2016. Dataciones por trazas de fisión en los depósitos continentales terciarios de la Región de Cusco, 521–524. XIII Congreso Peruano de Geología. Accessed 2017-08-15.

Yahuarango Formation

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• Ciancio, Martín Ricardo; Alfredo A. Carlini; Kenneth E. Campbell, and Gustavo J. Scillato Yané. 2013. New Palaeogene cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from Santa Rosa, Perú and their importance in the context of South American faunas. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11. 727–741. Accessed 2019-02-15.

Yumaque Formation

• Lambert, O.; M. Martínez Cáceres; G. Bianucci; C. Di Celma; R. Salas Gismondi; E. Steurbaut; Mario Urbina, and C. de Muizon. 2017. Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales. Current Biology 27. 1–7. Accessed 2019-02-04.

Mesozoic

• K. Bandel. 1994. Comparison of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic gastropods from the Peruvian Andes (Pucara Group) and the Alps (Cassian Formation). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 233:127-160
• V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493
• S. C. Bennett. 1989. A pteranodontid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Peru, with comments on the relationships of Cretaceous pterosaurs. Journal of Paleontology 63(5):669-677
• G. J. Brenner. 1968. Middle Cretaceous spores and pollen from Northeastern Peru. Pollen et Spores 10:341-383
• M. W. Caldwell and G. L. Bell, Jr. 1995. Halisaurus sp. (Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of east-central Peru, and the taxonomic utility of mosasaur cervical vertebrae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3):532-544
• A. V. Dhondt and E. Jaillard. 2005. Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 19:325-342
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