Cañadón Lobo (Eocene of Argentina)

Also known as Cañadón Tournouër, Casamayor, Punta Casamayor, Ètage Notostylopéen

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.4° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barrancan zone, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Cifelli (1985) listed this collection as a Casamayoran locality without specifying its allocation to the Barrancan or Vacan, but the fauna is Barrancan.

•Pascual et al. 2002: De acuerdo con Cifelli (1985:20-21, figura 10, tabla 8), a pesar de lo escaso de la fauna, sus mayo- res afinidades son con los mamíferos de su «Sub-Age Barrrancan», la más moderna de las dos subedades (Subedad Vaquense y Subedad Barranquense) en que subdividió la SALMA Casamayorense.

•Woodburne et al. (2014) consider the Barrancan to be Middle Eocene (late Lutetian–Bartonian) in age.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176169: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016, edited by Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Peradectidae
Caroloameghinia mater3 Ameghino 1901 marsupial
AMNH 28445, broken lower molar
 Notoungulata - Notopithecidae
Notopithecus sp.2 Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
Transpithecus obtentus4 Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
MNHN-PT N° 29
Antepithecus ? brachystephanus Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae
Oldfieldthomasia indet. Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
Paginula parca1 Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Notostylops murinus Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
 Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae
Trigonostylops wortmani1 Ameghino 1897 placental
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Utaetus ? buccatus Ameghino 1902 armadillo