Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.3° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 63.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Estancia La Costa Member (Santa Cruz Formation), Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)
• Estancia Angelina (levels >10) is on top of Estancia la Costa member (levels 1-10)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Tauber. 1997. Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia. Ameghiniana 34(4):517-529 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206236: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Proeutatus oenophorus" = Proeutatus oenophorum
"Proeutatus oenophorus" = Proeutatus oenophorum Ameghino 1887 edentate | |
Astrapotherium sp. Burmeister 1879 placental | |
Protypotherium australe Moreno 1882 notoungulate | |
"Proterotherium" intermedium Ameghino 1894 placental |