Cerro Ballena
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cerro-ballena-255-9688153
title:
Cerro Ballena
text:
Cerro Ballena is a fossiliferous locality of the Bahía Inglesa Formation, located in the Atacama Desert along the Pan-American Highway a few kilometers north of the port of Caldera, Chile. It has been dated back to the Late Miocene epoch, during the Neogene period. The locality was first noted in 1965 during military work and fully excavated and studied between 2011 and 2012, and is protected by law since the latter year. Cerro Ballena is extremely abundant in cetacean fossil skeletons, includin
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description:
Miocene palaeontological locality from Chile
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Ballena
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date modified:
2023-12-28T02:53:35Z
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