Playa La Mina, NF2 (Oligocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.1° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 59.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meseta Chica Member (San Julian Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• unit NF2, basal Meseta Chica Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; fine-grained sandstone

• inner shelf-upper shoreface

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Erdmann, E. S. Bellosi, and G. A. Morra. 2008. Una nueva especie de coral solitario (Scleractinia, Turbinoliidae) de la formacion San Julian (Oligocene superior, Santa Cruz) en su contexto estratigrafico y paleoambiental [A new species of a solitary coral (Scleractinia, Turbinoliidae) from the San Julian Formation (Upper Oligocene, Santa Cruz) in its stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context]. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 10(2):255-262 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92495: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Sphenotrochus aff. gardineri, Bothrophoria compressa n. sp.
Sphenotrochus aff. gardineri Squires 1961 stony coral
Bothrophoria compressa n. sp. Erdmann et al. 2008 stony coral