Milestone in Algarrobo: Paleontologists Identify Eocene Sea Turtles in the Chilean Pacific for the First Time
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The coasts of Algarrobo continue to reveal unknown chapters of the natural history of Chile. A team of paleontologists identified the first remains of sea turtles of the Eocene found in the southeastern Pacific, a discovery that allows to fill a vacuum of millions of years in the national fossil record.The finding corresponds to two fragments of shell recovered in the so-called Algarrobo Strates during campaigns carried out in July 2024.One of t…
The study, part of the research promoted by the Paleontological Network University of Chile, was published in the magazine Andean Geology.
A team from the University of Chile identified two shell fragments found on the coast of Algarrobo as the first records of sea turtles of the Eocene in the South Eastern Pacific, a period of between 56 and 34 million years ago. The finding was published in the scientific journal Andean Geology. The so-called Algarrobo Stratos have been an inexhaustible source of surprises for Chilean paleontology. Marine reptiles, land dinosaurs, ancestral birds…
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