Where: Chile (51.6° S, 72.4° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° S, 62.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Rio Turbio Formation, Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)
• correlative with the La Meseta Formation of Antarctica
•Otero and Soto-Acuna 2015: approx. 400 m in the stratigraphic section of the upper part of Sierra Dorotea
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. A. Sallaberry, R. E. Yury-Yanez, R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuna, and T. G. Torres. 2010. Eocene birds from the western margin of southernmost South America. Journal of Paleontology 84(6):1061-1070 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 99479: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.11.2010, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Spheniscidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 penguin
Palaeeudyptes sp. Huxley 1859 penguin | |
cf. Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820 heron | |
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Mesoeucrocodylia indet.2 Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian SGO.PV.6654, two fragments of cranium and two osteoderms; SGO.PV.6578, cranium fragment
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Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle SGO.PV.6576a-c, three plastral fragments; SGO.PV.6577, 13 shell fragments
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