Estancia Don Manuel corals, Chubut, Argentina (Paleocene to of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.7° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lefipan Formation, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Kiessling, E. Aragon, R. Scasso, M. Aberhan, J. Kriwet, F. Medina, and D. Fracchia. 2005. Massive corals in Paleocene siliciclastic sediments of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina). Facies 51:233-241 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57164: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 07.12.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Haimesiastraea conferta Vaughan 1900 stony coral
large colonies only
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Entobia sp. Bronn 1838 demosponge
 Ichnofossils -
Trypanites sp. Mägdefrau 1932
Gastrochaenolites sp. Leymerie 1842