Puesto Echavez (Oligocene to of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negro, Argentina (40.3° S, 65.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 60.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: S. E. Caviglia and R. E. Jorge. 1980. Preaulophyseter gualichensis Gen. et sp. nov. (Cetacea; Physeteridae), en el Terciario marino de Rio Negro, Republica Argentina. Actas del Segundo Congresso Argentino de Paleontologia y Beoestratigrafia 2:363-370 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46898: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Preaulophyseter gualichensis n. gen. n. sp. Caviglia and Jorge 1980 toothed whale