Coley's Quarry (Eocene of Argentina)

Also known as Gran Barranca faunule 4, GBV-64

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.1° S, 58.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mustersan mammal zone, Lower Puesto Almendra Member (Sarmiento Formation), Mustersan (48.0 - 42.0 Ma)

• Mustersan SALMA, Late Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014). May correspond to a higher level in the Mustersan than nearby El Rosado.

•Middle of Gran Barranca section I of Cifelli (1985), in a "Channel series. Clay ball conglomerate"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Cifelli. 1985. Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 2820:1-26 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176179: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata -
Periphragnis exauctus Ameghino 1902 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Distylophorus alouatinus Roth 1902 notoungulate
Rhyphodon indet. Roth 1899 notoungulate
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astraponotus indet. Ameghino 1901 placental