Cañadon La Leona: Santacrucian, Chile
collected by Junius Bird 1936

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Nematherium birdi n. sp. Simpson 1941
see also ref 71577 (5 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile State/province:Magallanes
Coordinates: 52.3° South, 71.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.0° South, 65.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:320 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Santacrucian Mammal zone: Santacrucian
Age range of interval:17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palomares
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: There is here a small exposure of the local bedrock, a gray tuff, which elsewhere in this region is hidden by glacial and other relatively recent deposits.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:Junius Bird Collection dates:1936
Metadata
Database number:139877
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-19 13:09:31 Last modified:2020-09-17 09:30:47
Access level:database members Released:2014-02-19 13:09:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
45051. G. G. Simpson. 1941. A Miocene Sloth from Southern Chile. American Museum Novitates 1156 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]