700 m east of São José (Itaborai Basin): Early Eocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Originally published in Maury 1929
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae
Reptilia - Rheiformes - Rheidae
Alvarenga 1983
Reptilia - Crocodylidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio de Janeiro County:Cabucu
Coordinates: 22.1° South, 41.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° South, 27.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Altitude:19 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Early Eocene Mammal zone:  Itaboraian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: translation: collected from the margins of holes in the calcium carbonate
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Some shells were found
Metadata
Database number:38793
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Wertheim
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-04 11:21:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-04 11:21:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
13023. L.I. Price and C. Paula Couto. 1946. Vertebrados fósseis do Eoceno Inferior de Itaborai. Notas Preliminares e Estudios 31:1-3 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]

Secondary references:

104255% 20520H.M.F. Alvarenga. 1983. Uma ave ratitae do Paleoceno Brasileiro: bacia calcária de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Boletim Do Museu Nacional. Geologia 41:1-8 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Head]