Laguna Blanca: Burdigalian - Langhian, Argentina
collected by Roth, Pascual, Parodi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Calyptocephalellidae
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Gigantobatrachus parodii n. gen., n. sp.
Casamiquela 1958
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° South, 67.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.0° South, 62.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian - Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Río Frías |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MLP |
| Collectors: | Roth, Pascual, Parodi |
| Collection method comments: The material has been collected by S. Roth during the old collections of MLP in Santa Cruz. Then, Pascual and Parodi re-discovered the materials in the MLP collections. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Gigantobatrachus Type Locality | ||
| Database number: | 228751 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2023-01-03 13:46:22 | Last modified: | 2023-01-03 13:46:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2023-01-03 13:46:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 83569. | R. M. Casamiquela. 1958. Un anuro gigante del Mioceno de Patagonia. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 13(3):171-183 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |