Northeast of Cinco Saltos: Danian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825
MCS-PV 146 (three fragments of vertebrae)
Yaminuechelys cf. maior (Staesche 1929)
MCS-PV 113-145 (postcranial remains, mainly portions of plastron and carapace)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Río Negro
Coordinates: 38.7° South, 67.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° South, 56.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Malargue Formation:Roca
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Museo de Cinco Saltos
Metadata
Database number:141238
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-21 22:36:15 Last modified:2021-04-14 12:25:38
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-21 22:36:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45852. P. Bona, S. Heredia, and M. Fuente. 2009. Tortugas continentales (Pleurodira: Chelidae) en la Formación Roca (Daniano), provincia de Río Negro, Argentina [Continental turtles (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from the Roca Formation (Danian), Río Negro Province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 46(2):255-262 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]