Río Foyel Fm (from González Bonorino, 1944) (Oligocene of Argentina)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Offshore, siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Massive to finely bedded shale with calcareous sandstone beds. LITHIFICATION: Presumably lithified, based on age and facies (concretions and calcarenites

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

• COVERAGE; Exhaustive for brachiopods, bivalves, and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, using fairly modern nomenclature and species-level assignments.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella ambulacrum Sowerby 1846 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Proscaphella triplicata" = Palaeomelon triplicata
"Proscaphella triplicata" = Palaeomelon triplicata Sowerby 1846 volute
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Miltha promaucana" = Lucinoma promaucana, "Phacoides ortmanni" = Lucina ortmanni
"Miltha promaucana" = Lucinoma promaucana Philippi 1877 clam
"Phacoides ortmanni" = Lucina ortmanni Ihering 1899 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium patagonicum" = Hedecardium (Iheringicardium) patagonicum Ihering 1907 cockle
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea nucleus Ihering 1899 clam