Buen Suceso Bay, Fuegian Andes, silty sandstone strata [Estratos de Buen Suceso] (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (54.8° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° S, 52.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Buen Suceso Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Estratos de Buen Suceso, which regionally overlies the Beauvoir Fm (Aptian-Cenomanian), and is regionally overlain by the Bahia Thetis Fm (Campanian). AGE: Santonian-lower Campanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, gray, silty sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Gray, silty sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but possibly either Macellari or Olivero. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.

Primary reference: E. B. Olivero and N. Malumían. 2008. Mesozoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Fuegian Andes, Argentina. Geologica Acta 6(1):5-18 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 90738: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic taxa mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
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 Ichnofossils -
Rhizocorallium sp., Zoophycos sp., Chondrites sp., Palaeophycus sp., Planolites sp.
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873