Casamayor bed 3: Casamayoran, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gastopoda indet.
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gibbula dalli Ihering 1897
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Scalaria rugulosa
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella breantania
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten centralis Sowerby 1846
recombined as Jorgechlamys centralis
Pecten proximus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea ingens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Rhynchonella plicigera Ihering 1897
recombined as Plicirhynchia plicigera
Rhynchonella squamosa Hutton 1873
recombined as Tegulorhynchia squamosa
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Magellania lenticularis (Deshayes 1839)
recombined as Neothyris lenticularis
Terebratella patagonica (Sowerby 1846)
Terebratella dorsata (Gmelin 1792)
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Echinidae
Isechinus (Toxopneustes) praecursor (Ortmann 1900)
Hypechinus patagonensis
Psammechinus tournoueri n. sp.
Psammechinus iheringi
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster ameghinoi
Linthia gaudryii n. sp.
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
Platypygus (Cyrthoma) posthumus
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Monophorasteridae
Iheringina (Scutella) patagonensis Desor 1847
recombined as Iheringiella patagonensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838
cf. Carcharodon auriculatus (Blainville 1818)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 47.7° South, 66.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.3° South, 56.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Casamayoran
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Casamayor Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:first reported by M. Ortmann (no reference)
Metadata
Database number:50067
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Wertheim
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-05-05 11:37:16 Last modified:2006-08-13 17:50:28
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-05 11:37:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13447. A. Tournouër. 1903. Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 3:464-473 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]