Playa El Doradillo: Tortonian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Notoziphius bruneti n. gen., n. sp.
Buono and Cozzuol 2013
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Chubut |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° South, 65.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° South, 62.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Puerto Madryn | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lowermost level of the Puerto Madryn Formation, about 2 m above the unconformable contact with the underlying Gaiman Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation muddy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bioturbated muddy sandstones | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: comprises a transgressive-regressive cycle that was deposited in a shallow marine environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 146855 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-01 05:16:45 | Last modified: | 2019-01-23 10:13:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-07-01 05:16:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47424. | M. R. Buono and M. A. Cozzuol. 2013. A new beaked whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4):986-997 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 12860 | C. J. del Rio. 2004. Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis. Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1097-1122 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall] |