CaƱadon Hondo "Fish Beds" (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (39.8° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 60.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Casamayoran (56.0 - 48.0 Ma)

• From the lowest 6" of beds, about 90-95' below the Casamayoran mammals

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown shale

• "Probably lacustrine deposit of volcanic ash"
• Buff laminated shales

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: B. Schaeffer. 1947. An Eocene serranid from Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1331:1-9 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49941: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 02.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Percichthyidae
Percichthys hondoensis n. sp. Schaeffer 1947