Gran Barranca faunule 17 (Paleogene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.7° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 59.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tinguirirican mammal zone, Vera Member (Sarmiento Formation), Tinguirirican (36.0 - 29.0 Ma)

• Tinguirirican SALMA, latest Eocene/early Oligocene (Madden et al. 2010).

•High in Gran Barranca section V of Cifelli (1985), in "irreg. bedded pnk. tuff, limonite and Mn concretions, conglomerate of tuff pebbles in lower part"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 176196: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 30.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Anisotemnus distentus Ameghino 1901 notoungulate
Pleurostylodon indet. Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
 Notoungulata -
"? Eomorphippus pascuali" = Rosendo pascuali
"? Eomorphippus pascuali" = Rosendo pascuali Simpson 1967 notoungulate
AMNH 29474, dentary i3-m3.