El Simbolar (lower Lumbrera) (Eocene of Argentina)

Also known as below ‘Faja Verde II’ and above ‘Faja Verde I’

Where: Salta, Argentina (25.7° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 54.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vacan mammal zone, Lower Member (Lumbrera Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• lower Lumbrera Formation, below ‘Faja Verde II’ and above ‘Faja Verde I’

•Fernicola et al. 2021 obtained an 238U-206Pb isochron age of 46.2 +/- 7.3 Ma for samples from the Lower Lumberer Fm, suggesting that the Lower section of the formation was deposited between 55–46Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; green mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Powell, M. J. Babot, D. A. García López, M. V. Deraco, and C. Herrera. 2011. Eocene vertebrates of northwest Argentina: annotated list. In J. Salfity, R. A. Marquillas (eds.), Cenozoic Geology of the Central Andes of Argentina 349-370 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176659: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 25.02.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata -
Griphotherion peiranoi n. gen. n. sp.2
Griphotherion peiranoi n. gen. n. sp.2 García López and Powell 2011 notoungulate
PVL 5903, complete skull and mandibles and anterior third of postcranial skeleton.
 Notoungulata - Notohippidae
Pampahippus secundus n. sp.1 Deraco and GarcÍa-López 2016 notoungulate
PVL 6426, fragment of right maxilla of a young adult individual with P2–4 and M1–3. PVL 6427, fragment of left premaxilla with I1–3; fragment of left maxilla with incomplete P2 and complete P3–4 and M1–2; fragment of right dentary with incomplete m1–3. PVL 6428, fragment of right maxilla and premaxilla with I2–3, C, incomplete P2, complete P3, and part of P4. PVL 6429, fragment of right maxilla and premaxilla with roots of I2–3, complete C, part of P1, and complete P2. PVL 6430, fragment of left maxilla with P4, part of M1, and M2. PVL 6431, fragment of left dentary with root of i1, incomplete i2, root of i3, c, and p1, and complete p2–4. PVL 6432, fragment of left dentary with p3–4. PVL 6433, fragment of right dentary with incomplete m3.
Reptilia
 Loricata - Sebecidae
Sebecus sp. Stirton 1953 crocodilian
PVL 6385, skull