Coley's Quarry: Mustersan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astraponotus indet. Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Rhyphodon indet. Roth 1899
Distylophorus alouatinus (Roth 1902)
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Periphragnis exauctus (Ameghino 1902)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 45.7° South, 68.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.1° South, 58.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Mustersan Mammal zone:  Mustersan
Age range of interval: 47.9 - 41.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento Member:Lower Puesto Almendra
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Mustersan SALMA, Late Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014). May correspond to a higher level in the Mustersan than nearby El Rosado.

Middle of Gran Barranca section I of Cifelli (1985), in a "Channel series. Clay ball conglomerate"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Gran Barranca faunule 4, GBV-64
Database number:176179
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:13779
Created:2016-01-30 19:37:43 Last modified:2020-09-19 09:46:21
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-30 19:37:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57836. R. Cifelli. 1985. Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 2820:1-26 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]

Secondary references:

57837 R. H. Madden, R. F. Kay, M. G. Vucetich and A. A. Carlini. 2010. Gran Barranca: a twenty-three million year record of Middle-Cenozoic faunal evolution in Patagonia. In R. H. Madden, A. A. Carlini, M. G. Vucetich, R. F. Kay (eds.), The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 423-439 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]