Playa El Doradillo: Tortonian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 42.7° South, 65.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.3° South, 63.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Puerto Madryn
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: lowermost level of the Puerto Madryn Formation, about 2 m above the unconformable contact with the underlying Gaiman Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation muddy sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bioturbated muddy sandstones
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: comprises a transgressive-regressive cycle that was deposited in a shallow marine environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:146855
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-07-01 05:16:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-01 05:16:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
47424. M. R. Buono and M. A. Cozzuol. 2013. A new beaked whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4):986-997 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12860 C. J. del Rio. 2004. Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis. Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1097-1122 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]