Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.0° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 56.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Itaborian SALMA zone, Las Flores Formation (Río Chico Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Bauzá et al. 2019: Las Flores Formation, which is part of the Paleogene Rio Chico Group, together with the lower levels of the Las Violetas and Peñas Coloradas formations and, the upper Koluel-Kaike Formation (Raigemborn et al. 2010).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
• Bauzá et al. 2019: specimens housed in Museo de La Plata, Argentina
Primary reference: N. Bauzá, J. N. Gelfo, and G. M. López. 2019. Early steps in the radiation of notoungulate mammals in southern South America: A new henricosborniid from the Eocene of Patagonia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(3):597-603 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203121: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 29.07.2019, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Teratopithecus elpidophoros López et al. 2020 notoungulate | |
Orome deepi n. sp.
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