Cañadón Vaca faunule 2: Lutetian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Polydolopidae
Polydolops thomasi Ameghino 1897
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Notostylops indet. Ameghino 1897
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Escalante
Coordinates: 45.3° South, 68.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° South, 58.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Lutetian Zone:  Vacan
Age range of interval: 47.8 - 41.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmiento Formation, Vacan SALMA (a subdivision of the Casamayoran SALMA), middle Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).

Located in upper half of Cañadón Vaca section I in a layer of "ylw. impure tuff and clay, some Mn." (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:176171
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:44956
Created:2016-01-30 18:25:01 Last modified:2020-09-19 09:43:07
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-30 18:25:01
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]