Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° S, 61.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deseadan mammal zone, Upper Puesto Almendra Member (Sarmiento Formation), Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)
• Unit 3 of the Upper Puesto Almendra Member at Gran Barranca, Chubut.
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•Deseadan SALMA, Late Oligocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. H. Madden, R. F. Kay, M. G. Vucetich and A. A. Carlini. 2010. Gran Barranca: a twenty-three million year record of Middle-Cenozoic faunal evolution in Patagonia. In R. H. Madden, A. A. Carlini, M. G. Vucetich, R. F. Kay (eds.), The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 423-439 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176203: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 31.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Scarrittia barranquensis Ribeiro et al. 2010 notoungulate |