Punta Torcida: Bartonian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Pansphenisciformes indet.
Clarke et al. 2003
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1 specimen | ||||||
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= Palaeeudyptes gunnari
Wiman 1905
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Acosta Hospitaleche and Olivero 2016 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Tierra del Fuego |
| Coordinates: | 54.5° South, 66.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.7° South, 56.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Leticia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age after Acosta Hospitaleche & Olivero 2016; originally middle Eocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fine-grained, glauconitic, estuarine, and proximal shelf sandstones | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 59977 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-04-25 11:12:47 | Last modified: | 2017-08-15 14:23:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-25 11:12:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17244. | J. A. Clarke, E. B. Olivero, and P. Puerta. 2003. Decription of the earliest fossil penguin from South America, and first Paleogene vertebrate locality of Teirra del Fuego, Argentina. American Museum Novitates 3423:1-18 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 63039 | C. Acosta Hospitaleche and E. Olivero. 2016. Re-evaluation of the fossil penguin Palaeeudyptes gunnari from the Eocene Leticia Formation, Argentina: additional material, systematics and palaeobiology. Alcheringa 40(3):373-382 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |