Locality III, Tapera de López, Riconada de los López: Bartonian, Argentina
collected by Scarritt Expedition 1933

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Caroloameghinia tenuis (Ameghino 1901)
AMNH 28928
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Arminiheringia sp. Ameghino 1902
AMNH 114051
Mammalia - Polydolopidae
Amphidolops serrula Ameghino 1902
Marshall 1982 3 specimens
AMNH 28922, 28923, 28929
Polydolops thomasi Ameghino 1897
Marshall 1982 8 specimens
AMNH 28920, 28921, 28924-27, 28930, 28931
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Pleurostylodon cf. similis Ameghino 1901
AMNH 28929
Isotemnus primitivus Ameghino 1897
AMNH 28938, 28940, 114052
Mammalia - Notoungulata
? Periphragnis sp. Roth 1899
AMNH 28941
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Oldfieldthomasia debilitata (Ameghino 1901)
AMNH 114050
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino 1901
AMNH 114046
Notopithecus sp. Ameghino 1897
AMNH 28937
Notopithecus cf. adapinus Ameghino 1897
AMNH 28936
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Notostylops sp. Ameghino 1897
AMNH 114047, 114049
Notostylops cf. murinus Ameghino 1897
AMNH 28957, 28958
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae
Trigonostylops sp. Ameghino 1897
AMNH 28935
Albertogaudrya sp. Ameghino 1901
AMNH 114053
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Paso de Indios
Coordinates: 44.4° South, 68.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° South, 59.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian Mammal zone:  Barrancan
Age range of interval: 41.2 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Barrancan SALMA - Middle Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:Scarritt Expedition Collection dates:1933
Metadata
Database number:49900
Authorizer:D. Croft Enterer:D. Croft
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-05-01 13:29:21 Last modified:2020-09-19 09:34:45
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-01 13:29:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13081. L. G. Marshall, R. L. Cifelli, R. E. Drake and G. H. Curtis. 1986. Vertebrate paleontology, geology, and geochronology of the Tapera de López and Scarritt Pocket, Chubut Province, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 60(4):920-951 [D. Croft/D. Croft/D. Croft]

Secondary references:

57557 L. G. Marshall. 1982. Systematics of the extinct South American marsupial family Polydolopidae. Fieldiana Geology 12:1-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]