Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.4° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° S, 59.9° W)
When: NN4 nannofossil zone, Saladar Member (Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• late Early Miocene-earliest Middle Miocene. Basal layers therefore should be Burdigalian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. A. Reichler. 2010. Estratigrafía y paleontología del Cenozoico marino del Gran Bajo y Salinas del Gualicho, Argentina y descripción de 17 especies nuevas. Andean Geology 37(1):177-219 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179578: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Torcula magna turret shell
"Spirocolpus" adapicis turret shell | |
"Perissodonta ameghinoi" = Struthiolarella ameghinoi
"Perissodonta ameghinoi" = Struthiolarella ameghinoi Ihering 1897 snail | |
Austroimbricaria brugnii, "Mitra (Fusimitra) carlosi" = Fusimitra
Austroimbricaria brugnii mitre shell
"Mitra (Fusimitra) carlosi" = Fusimitra mitre shell | |
Penion patagonensis true whelk | |
Conus aff. infulatus Hoerle 1976 cone shell | |
Polystira cingula turrid | |
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) guadalupei murex snail | |
Pachycymbiola arriolensis volute
Pachycymbiola camachoi volute
Adelomelon posei Scarabino et al. 2004 volute | |
Ficus distans Sowerby 1846 fig shell | |
Eudolium lissiei tun shell | |
Sconsia magdai snail | |
Siphocypraea posei Figueiras 1985 cowry | |
Magnatica hansi moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Amusium rorii scallop
Nodipecten salis scallop | |
Lucinidae sp. Fleming 1828 clam | |
"Tawera canalei" = Ameghinomya argentina, Dosinia (Dosinia) salarensis
"Tawera canalei" = Ameghinomya argentina Ihering 1897 venus clam
Dosinia (Dosinia) salarensis venus clam | |
"Hedecardium" "sp. 2" Marwick 1944 cockle
"Hedecardium" "sp. 1" Marwick 1944 cockle | |
Panopea aff. nucleus Ihering 1899 clam | |
"Venericor (Neovenericor) austroplata" = Neovenericor austroplata, Purpurocardia sp.
"Venericor (Neovenericor) austroplata" = Neovenericor austroplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
Purpurocardia sp. Maxwell 1969 clam | |
Iheringinucula sp. clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell |