Historical Finding of Fossils in Algarrobo that Changes What We Knew About Chilean and Pacific Fauna

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Two shell fragments found on the coast made it possible to identify, for the first time, the presence of sea turtles that inhabited the area between 56 and 34 million years ago A team of Chilean researchers identified the first record of sea turtles of Eocene in the South Eastern Pacific, from two shell fragments found in the Algarrobo strata. The discovery, published in Andean Geology magazine, fills an important gap in the national fossil reco…

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The coasts of Algarrobo are home to an impressive discovery that revisits the evolutionary history of Chilean fauna. It is a team of researchers from the Paleontological Network of the University of Chile and the EVOTEM Millennium Nucleus who identified the first remains of sea turtles of the Eocene found in the southeastern Pacific. This milestone allows to fill a gap of millions of years in the Chilean fossil record. The study, published in th…