Where: Chile (52.6° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 65.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Palomares Formation, Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)
• It was E. Miocene but the Palomares fm is equivalent to the Santa Cruz formation in the adjacent regions. Palomares (=Santa Cruz Formation; Bostelmann et al., 2013).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and calcareous tuff
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Hemmer in 1935
• Fossils sent to Dr. C. L. Gazin in the Smisthonian museum.
Primary reference: L. G. Marshall and P. Salinas Z. 1990. Vertebrados continentales del Mioceno inferior de Magallanes, Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Serie Ciencias Naturales 19(1):27-38 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207598: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 21.01.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Astrapotherium magnum Owen 1853 placental |