South Bank of Ensenada Creek, Miocene: Serravallian - Tortonian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Entre Rios | County: | Diamante |
| Coordinates: | 32.1° South, 60.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.3° South, 57.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian - Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Parana |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green claystone |
| Lithology description: light green clays with sandy levels, partially cemented by whitish carbonates | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: some wetland, estuarine-barrier shoreface, carbonaceous silt | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 107668 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-04-12 23:37:17 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 15:56:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-12 23:37:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35799. | J. I. Noriega, A. L. Cione, and F. G. Acenolaza. 2007. Shark tooth marks on Miocene balaenopterid cetacean bones from Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie 245(2):185-192 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |