Chico River: Colloncuran, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 41.1° South, 70.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° South, 67.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Colloncuran
Age range of interval: 15.5 - 13.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Collón Cura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: A recent 40Ar/39Ar analysis in amphibole crystals collected from fresh pumice clasts revealed an age of 14.86 ± 0.13 Ma for the middle section of the Collón Curá Formation in the Gastre Basin (Bilmes et al. 2013), placing this unit and its fauna in the middle Miocene (Langhian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous sandstone
Lithology description: In general terms, the Collón Curá Formation is character- ized by tuff, sandstone, and ignimbrite, bearing fossil mam- mals below and above the Pilcaniyeu Ignimbrite Member (Vucetich et al. 1993; Cucchi et al. 1998; Escosteguy et al. 2013).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Some specimens are new and some are un-published specimens of Roth’s (1899) old collection curated at Museo de La Plata.
Metadata
Database number:198571
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari
Created:2018-12-18 03:43:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-18 03:43:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

67593. B. Vera, M. Reguero, and L. González-Ruiz. 2017. The Interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá Formation in Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(4):845-863 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]