Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.4° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 60.8° W)

When: NN4 nannofossil zone, Saladar Member (Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• late Early Miocene-earliest Middle Miocene. Top layers therefore should be Langhian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. A. Reichler. 2010. Estratigrafía y paleontología del Cenozoico marino del Gran Bajo y Salinas del Gualicho, Argentina y descripción de 17 especies nuevas. Andean Geology 37(1):177-219 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179580: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.06.2016

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