Cañadón Vaca faunule 6: Bartonian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
Eohyrax praerusticus Ameghino 1902
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Ultrapithecus cf. rutilans Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Notostylops murinus Ameghino 1897
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Notopithecus adapinus Ameghino 1897
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Escalante
Coordinates: 45.3° South, 68.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° South, 58.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian Zone: Barrancan
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmiento Formation, Barrancan SALMA (a subdivision of the Casamayoran SALMA), middle Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).

Located near top of Cañadón Vaca section II in a layer of "partly indurated wht. and gry. tuff" (Cifelli 1985).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:MACN
Metadata
Database number:176175
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:44956
Created:2016-01-30 18:28:08 Last modified:2020-09-19 09:44:27
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-30 18:28:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57836. R. Cifelli. 1985. Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 2820:1-26 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]