Cerro Redondo, 117-118 m above the "Banco Verde" : Riochican, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
1 specimen
Carapace fragment
    = Chelidae indet.
de Broin and de la Fuente 1993
MACN
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notopithecidae
? Notopithecidae indet. Ameghino 1897
1 specimen
Lower jaw fragment
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Isotemnidae indet. Ameghino 1897
1 specimen
Lower molar
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypodidae indet. (Gray 1821)
2 specimens
Scutes
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 45.3° South, 67.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.9° South, 56.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Thanetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Riochican Mammal zone: Riochican
Age range of interval:56.90000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Río Chico Formation:Koluel Kaike
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 'm', 117-118 metres above the top of the "Banco Negro Inferior."
Ernestokokenia Faunal Zone of Simpson (1935), Riochican SALMA, Koluel Kaike Formation, early Eocene (see Woodburne et al. 2014)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:175728
Authorizer:R. Butler, E. Vlachos Enterer:R. Butler, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-06 19:31:48 Last modified:2022-10-07 16:18:19
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-06 19:31:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57551. G. G. Simpson. 1935. Occurrence and relationships of the Rio Chico fauna of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 818:1-21 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

42415 F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]
57561 M. O. Woodburne, F. J. Goin, M. Bond, A. A. Carlini, J. N. Gelfo, G. M. López, A. Iglesias and A. N. Zimicz. 2014. Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 21:1-73 [R. Butler/R. Butler]