Puesto Sin Nombre (Paleocene of Argentina)

Where: Neuquen, Argentina (38.2° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° S, 57.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roca Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, yellow limestone

• material "from concretionary levels"

no paleoenvironmental data

• yellow-whitish marine carbonates

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, S. Casadío, L. Chirino-Galvez and M. Aguirre-Urreta. 1995. Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Jaguel and Roca Formations (Maastrichtian-Danian) of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 69(5 II):1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5166: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

• forams are "under study"
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Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Euryplacidae
"? Glyphithyreus wichmanni" = Chirinocarcinus wichmanni
"? Glyphithyreus wichmanni" = Chirinocarcinus wichmanni Feldmann et al. 1995 crab
GHUNLPam 7040-7041, CPBA 17378
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp.
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944