Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.2° S, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 62.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: San Madryn Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green mudstone and gray, green limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2000
• collection is in the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew
Primary reference: J. I. Noriega and G. Cladera. 2008. First record of an extinct marabou stork in the Neogene of South America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):593-600 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85116: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Leptoptilos patagonicus n. sp.
Leptoptilos patagonicus n. sp. Noriega and Cladera 2008 stork |