La Costa: Santacrucian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Paucituberculata
- Palaeothentidae
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Acdestis oweni
Ameghino 1887
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Bown and Fleagle 1993 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Sparassodonta
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Sipalocyon gracilis
Ameghino 1887
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Marshall 1981 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| FMNH P13777, partial skull and three vertebrae, from "La Costa, 7 miles south of Puerto Coyle" | ||||||||||
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Borhyaena tuberata
Ameghino 1887
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Prevosti et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| "La Costa, 8 miles south of Río Coyle" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° South, 69.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.8° South, 63.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Santacrucian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Cruz |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176582 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra, G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 27313 | ||
| Created: | 2016-02-17 22:06:27 | Last modified: | 2016-02-17 22:06:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-17 22:06:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58167. | S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, and M. S. Bargo. 2012. Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 1-22 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |
Secondary references:
| 73037 | T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle. 1993. Systematics, Biostratigraphy, and Dental Evolution of the Palaeothentidae, Later Oligocene to Early-Middle Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian) Caenolestoid Marsupials of South America. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 29:1-76 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 58306 | L. G. Marshall. 1981. Review of the Hathlyacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials. Fieldiana Geology 7:1-120 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 58202 | F. J. Prevosti, A. M. Forasiepi, M. D. Ercoli and G. F. Turazzini. 2012. Paleoecology of the mammalian carnivores (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene). In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 173-193 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |