Buen Suceso Bay, Fuegian Andes, silty sandstone strata [Estratos de Buen Suceso]: Santonian - Early Campanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
Zoophycos sp. (Massalongo 1855)
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina
Coordinates: 54.8° South, 65.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.0° South, 51.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian - Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6 - Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Santonian - Early Campanian
Age range of interval: 86.3 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Buen Suceso
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Estratos de Buen Suceso, which regionally overlies the Beauvoir Fm (Aptian-Cenomanian), and is regionally overlain by the Bahia Thetis Fm (Campanian). AGE: Santonian-lower Campanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper part of the formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,gray lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Gray, silty sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Bioerosion:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but possibly either Macellari or Olivero. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic taxa mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:90738
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-08-14 10:24:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-14 10:24:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
30541. E. B. Olivero and N. Malumían. 2008. Mesozoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Fuegian Andes, Argentina. Geologica Acta 6(1):5-18 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]