Cantera del Puerto Viejo: Tortonian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arcidae indet. Lamarck 1809
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatidae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontidae indet. Gray 1851
Chondrichthyes - Squatinidae
Squatinidae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Rajidae indet. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinidae indet. Jordan and Evermann 1896
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemigaleidae indet.
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrnidae indet. Gill 1872
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspidae indet. (Müller and Henle 1839)
corrected as Odontaspididae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Lamnidae indet. Müller and Henle 1838
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Otodontidae indet.
Chondrichthyes
Holocephali indet. (Bonaparte 1832)
Mammalia - Cetacea
Physeteroidea indet. Gray 1868
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Sciaenidae
Sciaenidae indet. (Cuvier 1828)
original and current combination Sciaenoidei
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Ariidae
Ariidae indet. Berg 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Entre Rios
Coordinates: 31.7° South, 60.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.9° South, 58.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parana Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: overlying beds are Huayquerian in age (Tortonian to Messinian: 8 to 6 Ma)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shell bed; bioclastic grainstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:128628
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-06-14 00:28:27 Last modified:2012-06-13 09:28:27
Access level:the public Released:2012-06-14 00:28:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41999. L. M. Perez, A. L. Cione, M. Cozzuol and A. N. Varela. 2011. A sperm whale (Cetacea: Physeteroidea) from the Parana Formation (Late Miocene) of Entre Rios, Argentina. Environment and taphonomy. Ameghiniana 48(4):648-654 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]