Punta-Nava level 3 (Oligocene to of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (47.7° S, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° S, 60.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Oligocene to Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Tournouër. 1903. Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 3:464-473 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50072: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 05.05.2005, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Monophorasteridae
"Iheringina (Scutella) patagonensis" = Iheringiella patagonensis
"Iheringina (Scutella) patagonensis" = Iheringiella patagonensis Desor 1847 sand dollar
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
unit b
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae