Cañadón Vaca faunule 1: Lutetian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Polydolopidae
Polydolops borcurhor
Polydolops thomasi Ameghino 1897
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Prostegotherium indet. Ameghino 1902
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Anisolambda amel Simpson 1948
Anisolambda fissidens Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Protolipternidae
Asmithwoodwardia subtrigona Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Victorlemoineia indet. Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Didolodontidae
Didolodus minor Simpson 1948
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Maxschlosseria consumata (Ameghino 1901)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Homalostylops sp. Ameghino 1901
Notostylops pendens (Ameghino 1901)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeopithecidae
Acropithecus rigidus (Ameghino 1901)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae
Henricosbornia lophodonta Ameghino 1901
Othnielmarshia lacunifera Ameghino 1901
Peripantostylops minutus (Ameghino 1901)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Isotemnus ? primitivus Ameghino 1897
? Pleurostylodon similis Ameghino 1901
Thomashuxleya externa Ameghino 1901
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae
Trigonostylops ? wortmani Ameghino 1897
    = Trigonostylops wortmani Ameghino 1897
Kramarz et al. 2019
MACN Pv CH1210 and 1211; MPEF PV 5482
Tetragonostylops aff. apthomasi (Price and Paula Couto 1950)
Kramarz et al. 2019
MPEF PV 5479-5481, CH1248
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotheriidae informal genus and species A
Kramarz et al. 2019
MPEF PV 5477
cf. Scaglia kraglievichorum Simpson 1957
Kramarz et al. 2019
MPEF PV 5478
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Escalante
Coordinates: 45.3° South, 68.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° South, 58.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Lutetian Zone:  Vacan
Age range of interval: 47.8 - 41.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmiento Formation, Vacan SALMA (a subdivision of the Casamayoran SALMA), middle Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).

Located near bottom of Cañadón Vaca section I in a layer of "massive wht. to buff tuff" (Cifelli 1985).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:MACN
Metadata
Database number:176170
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:44956
Created:2016-01-30 18:24:04 Last modified:2020-09-19 09:42:38
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-30 18:24:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57836. R. Cifelli. 1985. Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 2820:1-26 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]

Secondary references:

69959 A. G. Kramarz, M. Bond, and A. A. Carlini. 2019. Astrapotheres from Cañadón Vaca, middle Eocene of central Patagonia. New insights on diversity, anatomy and early evolution of Astrapotheria. Palaeontologia Electronica 22(2):52:1-22 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]