Where: Argentina (41.7° S, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 63.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rio Foyel Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Rio Foyel Fm. Unknown stratigraphic relations. THICKNESS: From lower 7 m of 18 m thick section. AGE: Considered to be Late Eocene to Early Oligocene according to foraminiferal, ostracod and microfloral biostratigraphy by Chiesa and Camacho (2001). Griffin et al. (2004) indicated an Early Oligocene age with Sr dates. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, sandy, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, possibly González Bonorino (c. 1940's). REPOSITORY: Unknown; some described material is reposited at CIRGEO (unknown location).
Primary reference: J. O. Chiesa and H. H. Camacho. 2001. Invertebrados marino Eocenos de la parte de Río Negro, Argentina. Revista Española de Paleontología 16(2):299-316 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71597: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella ambulacrum Sowerby 1846 turret shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
"Proscaphella triplicata" = Palaeomelon triplicata
"Proscaphella triplicata" = Palaeomelon triplicata Sowerby 1846 volute | |
Bivalvia | |
"Miltha promaucana" = Lucinoma promaucana, "Phacoides ortmanni" = Lucina ortmanni
"Miltha promaucana" = Lucinoma promaucana Philippi 1877 clam
"Phacoides ortmanni" = Lucina ortmanni Ihering 1899 clam | |
"Cardium patagonicum" = Hedecardium (Iheringicardium) patagonicum, Patagonicardium philippi
"Cardium patagonicum" = Hedecardium (Iheringicardium) patagonicum Ihering 1907 cockle
Patagonicardium philippi cockle | |
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Panopea sierrana clam
Panopea nucleus Ihering 1899 clam |