Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° S, 62.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Colhuehuapian mammal zone, Colhué Huapí Member (Sarmiento Formation), Colhuehuapian (21.0 - 17.5 Ma)
• level C
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. M. Ribeiro, G. M. López, and M. Bond. 2010. The Leontiniidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the Sarmiento Formation at Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina. 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 170-181 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176237: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 03.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Colpodon distinctus Ameghino 1902 notoungulate |