Rio de Las Minas: Late/Upper Eocene, Chile
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Spheniscidae indet.
Bonaparte 1831
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Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Callorhynchidae
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Ischyodus dolloi
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Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Callorhinchidae
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Callorhinchus sp.
Lacépède 1798
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Otero and Soto-Acuña 2015 | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
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Elasmobranchii indet.
(Bonaparte 1838)
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Rhinoptera sp.
Cuvier 1829
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Otero and Soto-Acuña 2015 | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Pristiophoridae
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Pristiophorus sp.
Bleeker 1859
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Otero and Soto-Acuña 2015 | ||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Megascyliorhinus sp.
Cappetta and Ward 1977
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Striatolamia macrota
(Agassiz 1838)
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original and current combination Otodus macrotus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Chile |
Coordinates: | 53.1° South, 71.1° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 55.3° South, 61.4° West |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Loreto | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: late Eocene or Eocene-Oligocene boundary |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | concretionary,glauconitic sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: well-sorted marine sandstones with glauconitic and concretionary horizons | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 99478 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-11-12 07:40:21 | Last modified: | 2021-06-30 18:47:07 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-12 07:40:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34241. | M. A. Sallaberry, R. E. Yury-Yanez, R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuna, and T. G. Torres. 2010. Eocene birds from the western margin of southernmost South America. Journal of Paleontology 84(6):1061-1070 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
67973 | R. A. Otero and S. Soto-Acuña. 2015. New chondrichthyans from Bartonian-Priabonian levels of Río de Las Minas and Sierra Dorotea, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia. Andean Geology 42(2):268-283 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
77288 | M. Sallaberry, S. Soto-Acuña, R. Yury-Yáñez, J. Alarcón, and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. Aves fósiles de Chile. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:265-291 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |