Cañadón Vaca faunule 3: Lutetian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Oldfieldthomasiidae
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Maxschlosseria minuta
(Ameghino 1901)
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Notostylopidae
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Notostylops pendens
(Ameghino 1901)
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Archaeopithecidae
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Acropithecus ? rigidus
(Ameghino 1901)
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Henricosborniidae
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Henricosbornia lophodonta
Ameghino 1901
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Othnielmarshia lacunifera
Ameghino 1901
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Isotemnidae
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Isotemnus primitivus
Ameghino 1897
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? Pleurostylodon similis
Ameghino 1901
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Thomashuxleya externa
Ameghino 1901
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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: | small collection |
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 II in a layer of "impure ylw. 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: | 176172 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 44956 | ||
| Created: | 2016-01-30 18:26:11 | Last modified: | 2020-09-19 09:43:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-30 18:26:11 |
| 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] |