Sierra Chaira: Mustersan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Pyrotheriidae
MLP 55-III-10-1 and MLP 55-IX-28- 1
Mammalia - Notoungulata
MLP 55-III-10-2-12
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 45.1° South, 68.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° South, 59.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Mustersan Mammal zone: 
Age range of interval: 48 - 42 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Mustersan SALMA
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MLP
Metadata
Database number:186802
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-07-04 08:07:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-04 08:07:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

62638. A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2014. Reconstruction of the dentition of Propyrotherium saxeum Ameghino, 1901 (Mammalia, Pyrotheria): taxonomic and phylogenetic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):434-443 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]