Where: Argentina (47.5° S, 71.9° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 66.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: El Chacay Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Presumably from the El Chacay Formation. This unit has been dated as early Miocene (Burdigalian) by Sr isotopes (Cuitiño et al., 2015) and correlative units also as Burdigalian by U-Pb chronology (Cuitiño et al., 2012).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Princeton University
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187477: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Patagorhynchia patagonica Ihering 1903 |