Cañadón del Puma: Early Miocene, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lingulata
- Discinida
- Disciniidae
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| Pérez et al. 2023 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| CNP-PIIc 593 (holotype), a dorsal valve | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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| 16 specimens | ||||||||||
| 10 specimens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodelphinidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina |
| Coordinates: | 42.3° South, 65.4° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.2° South, 65.2° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.04 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gaiman |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bioturbated and tuffaceous mudstones and sandstones, and interspersed shell- beds | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Geology comments: deposited in a marine inner shelf to shoreline paleoenvironment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 201438 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Uhen, F. Aspromonte |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-05-07 09:43:54 | Last modified: | 2025-02-24 15:29:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-05-07 09:43:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5906. | N. D. Farroni, J. I. Cuitiño, D. E. Pérez and M. R. Buono. 2023. Sedimentological and stratigraphically controlled preservation styles and distribution of fossil cetaceans from a new Early Miocene fossiliferous locality, Patagonia, Argentina. Historical Biology [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 91089 | C. M. Gaetán, M. R. Buono, Y. Tanaka, N. D. Farroni, and V. N. Milano. 2025. Echoes from the Miocene: tracing the anatomy and phylogeny of Prosqualodon australis (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1):2455753 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 88214 | D. E. Pérez, N. D. Farroni, A. A. Mosquera and J. I. Cuitiño. 2023. First discinid brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Lingulida) from the Cenozoic of Patagonia (Gaiman Formation, Lower Miocene, Argentina). Ameghiniana 60(3):203-215 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte] |