Patos, upper Acre River, conglomerate: Tortonian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Primates
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Acre
Coordinates: 10.9° South, 69.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° South, 66.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Solimoes Member:upper
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: no fossils in the sandy lithology of the bar environment
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:LACM 4611, Acre 6
Database number:67383
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-17 13:06:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-17 13:06:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19222. M. A. Cozzuol. 2006. The Acre vertebrate fauna: Age, diversity, and geography. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21:185-203 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

43724 O. A. Aguilera, J. Bocquentin, J. G. Lundberg and A. Maciente. 2008. A new cajaro catfish (Siluriformes : Pimelodidae : Phractocephalus) from the Late Miocene of southwestern Amazonia and its relationship to Phractocephalus nassi of the Urumaco Formation. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82(2):231-245 [C. Jaramillo/G. Ballen]