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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Percichthys hondoensis n. sp.
Percichthys hondoensis n. sp. Schaeffer 1947 |