Gran Barranca faunule 11 (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 59.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barrancan mammal zone, Gran Barranca Member (Sarmiento Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Barrancan SALMA, Middle Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).

•In upper half of Gran Barranca section III of Cifelli (1985), in "gry. impure tuff with Mn spots near bottom, many bones"

• 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 176185: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Oldfieldthomasia debilitata Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
Ultrapithecus rutilans Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Pleurostylodon modicus Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
Thomashuxleya rostrata Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Notopithecidae
Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
Notopithecus adapinus Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Notostylops murinus Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
 Polydolopimorphia - Polydolopidae
Polydolops thomasi Ameghino 1897 metatherian