Also known as Gran Barranca faunule 8, GBV-3, Gran Barranca Fauna "El Rosado"
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, Rosado Member (Sarmiento Formation), Mustersan (48.0 - 42.0 Ma)
• Mustersan SALMA, Middle Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014). May belong to an earlier phase of the Mustersan relative to Coley's Quarry.
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•High in Gran Barranca section II of Cifelli (1985), in "massive tuff with silicified patches, tuff pebbles below"
• 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 176194: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Notopithecus sp. Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino 1901 notoungulate | |
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? Puelia sp.4 Roth 1902 notoungulate MPEF-PV 6713, jugal and maxilla fragments; MPEF-PV 6853, left upper M1
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Machlydotherium sp.1, Utaetus lenis2, Stegosimpsonia sp.1, Meteutatus cf. attonsus1, Mazzoniphractus ingens2, Parutaetus chicoensis2
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