Tapado: Casamayoran, Chile

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Wyss et al. 1992
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Didolodontidae
Wyss et al. 1992
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Wyss et al. 1992
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Hitz et al. 2006
holotype: SGOPV 3168; referred specimen: SGOPV 3167
see common names

Geography
Country:Chile
Coordinates: 34.8° South, 70.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° South, 58.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Casamayoran
Age range of interval: 56 - 47.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Abanico
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pertains to Casamayoran or Musersan SALMA. Originally thought to overlie early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red or brown "volcaniclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Collection size:36 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH,SGOPV
Metadata
Also known as:Tapado ("Main") locality; Tapado Fauna
Database number:38880
Authorizer:D. Croft, P. Mannion Enterer:D. Croft, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-12 12:06:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-12 12:06:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
10500. A. R. Wyss, J. J. Flynn, C. C. Swisher, III, R. Charrier, and M. A. Norell. 1992. Fossil mammals from the central Chilean Andes: a new interval in the South American land mammal succession, and implications for Eocene-Oligocene events and Andean tectonics. Abstracts and Program, Fifth North American Paleontological Convention 318 [D. Croft/D. Croft/D. Croft]

Secondary references:

62629 R. B. Hitz, J. J. Flynn, and A. R. Wyss. 2006. New Basal Interatheriidae (Typotheria, Notoungulata, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of Central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3520:1-32 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
10499 A. R. Wyss, M. A. Norell, M. J. Novacek and J. J. Flynn. 1992. New ?early Tertiary localities from the Chilean Andes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3 Supp.):61A [D. Croft/D. Croft/D. Croft]