Where: Argentina (47.6° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 62.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Chacay Formation, Eocene (55.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From El Chacay Fm, which regionally overlies Basalto Posadas and is overlain by the Santa Cruz Fm (Eocene-Oligocene). THICKNESS: AGE: Eocene. No further detail provided. Justified on the basis of stratigraphic position and biostratigraphic correlation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown stratigraphic position within section. Figure 3 (Chiesa et al. 1995) suggests that the collection is derived from multiple distinct beds within the formation at each section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Presumably collected by authors during broader lithostratigraphic study and geologic mapping (see Chiesa and Camacho, 1995). REPOSITORY: CIRGEO (Centro de Investigaciones en Recursos Geologicos), Argentina.

Primary reference: J.O. Chiesa, S.G. Parma, and H.H. Camacho. 1995. Observaciones estratigraficas en el Paleogeno del noroeste de la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Republica Argentina). Parte II: Invertebrados marinos de la Formacion El Chacy (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Systematica y bioestratigrafia. Monografias de la Acadamia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas Y Naturales 11:17-68 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65184: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.09.2006

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