Table 2 Criteria used to define a palaeo-nursery area for each locality.

Pisco

Shallow-Upper shelf⁵²

whales, phocids, dolphins, large and small fishes (chondricthyans and bony fishes)^38,52

No

Caldera

Shallow-Upper shelf⁵⁷

whales, dugongids, dolphins, phocids, large and small fishes (chondricthyans and bony fishes)^41,54,55,56

No

Coquimbo

Shallow-Upper shelf^{46,47,49,50,51}

whales, large and small fishes (elasmobranchs and bony fishes)^40,42,46,47

Yes