Comallo: Colloncuran, Argentina
collected by Guillermo Aguirre-Zabala
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Myrmecophagidae
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? Neotamandua australis n. sp.
Scillato-Yané and Carlini 1998
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McDonald et al. 2008 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
MLP 91-IX-6-5, humerus, holotype; MLP 91-IX-4-23, distal humerus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Chelonoidis cf. gringorum
(Simpson 1942)
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de Broin and de la Fuente 1993 | |||||||||
APB collection | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Phorusrhacidae
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Kelenken guillermoi n. gen., n. sp.
Bertelli et al. 2007
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Río Negro |
Coordinates: | 41.0° South, 70.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° South, 65.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 790 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Colloncuran | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.50000 - 13.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Collón Curá | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "outcrops probably belonging to the pyroclastic Collón Curá Formation... Conlloncuran SALMA... middle Miocene" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | white tuff |
Lithology description: "whitish tuffs" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | Guillermo Aguirre-Zabala |
Collection method comments: specimen is in the Museo Asociación Palaeontológica Bariloche |
Metadata
Database number: | 74646 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Zijlstra |
Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-08-21 17:26:43 | Last modified: | 2018-11-23 06:53:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-21 17:26:43 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
25131. | S. Bertelli, L. M. Chiappe, and C. Tambussi. 2007. A new phorusrhacid (Aves: Cariamae) from the Middle Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):409-419 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
42415 | F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano] | |
58233 | H. G. McDonald, S. F. Vizcaíno, and M. S. Bargo. 2008. Skeletal anatomy and the fossil history of the Vermilingua. In S. F. Vizcaíno, W. J. Loughry (eds.), The Biology of the Xenarthra 64-78 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
67409 | G. J. Scillato-Yané and A. A. Carlini. 1998. Nuevos Xenarthra del Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Argentina. Studia geologica salmanticensia 34:43-67 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] |