Bajo Palangana: Riochican, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonii indet.
Latreille 1800
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de Broin and de la Fuente 1993 | |||||||||
synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Chelidae similar to Canadon Hondo and Meiolaniidae similar to those from Campo del Sr Acosta? | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Palangania brandmayri n. gen., n. sp.
Goin et al. 1998
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Holotype: UNPSJB PV-114 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Chubut | County: | Escalante |
Coordinates: | 45.5° South, 67.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.1° South, 57.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
Key time interval: | Riochican | Mammal zone: | Riochian |
Age range of interval: | 57.00000 - 55.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Río Chico | Formation: | Las Flores | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Riochican South American Land Mammal Age; Originally described as from the Koluel-Kaike Formation, but now assigned to the upper Las Flores Formation by Vera and Krause (2020) - possibly same level and locality as main site |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | permineralized |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | MLP |
Collection method comments: Specimens deposited at MLP include those collected by Ing. José Brandmayr in 1930, by Juan A. Pisano in 1961, and by W.D. Turnbull and M. McKenna in 1979. Additional specimens are deposited in Padua, Italy (those collected by E. Feruglio in the 1930s) and at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco" in Comodoro Rivadavia (those collected by by V. Escribano and M.S. April in the 1980s). |
Metadata
Also known as: | Bajo de la Palangana | ||
Database number: | 52703 | ||
Authorizer: | D. Croft, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | D. Croft, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-17 07:41:28 | Last modified: | 2020-09-18 07:35:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-17 07:41:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14182. | F. J. Goin, A. M. Candela, M. Bond, R. Pascual, and V. Escribano. 1998. Una nueva "comadreja" (Mammalia, Marsupialia, ?Polydolopimorphia) del Paleoceno de Patagonia, Argentina. in S. Casadía, ed., Paleógeno de América del Sur y de la Península Antártica 71-78 [D. Croft/D. Croft/D. Croft] |
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] | |
73732 | B. Vera and J. M. Krause. 2020. New insights into the Kibenikhoria and Ernestokokenia faunas and the implications for the early Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1772801:1-21 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |