Puesto Estancia La Costa Fossiliferous Level 5.3, Argentinien


Fundort: Puesto Estancia La Costa Fossiliferous Level 5.3, Argentinien, Santa Cruz, Argentinien
Taxon: Homunculus patagonicus aus der Familie Homunculidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, The age of this level is between 17.3 and 17.6 Ma, based on the age of two radiometrically dated tuffs that bracket it: the CO tuff of Perkins et al. (2012) and the CV-13 tuff of Trayler et al. (2020). The former as refined by high-precision U–Pb age modeling is 17.31 Ma and the latter is 17.62 Ma (Trayler et al., 2020).
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 16,3 und 17,5 Millionen Jahre aus der Santa Cruz Formation in Argentinien
Geologie, Sratigraphie Burdigalian / Santacrucian / Santa Cruz
Koordinaten: 51° 12 ' 0 '' S, 69° 5 ' 59 '' W

Literatur

R. F. Kay, J. M. G. Perry, M. Malinzak, K. L. Allen, E. C. Kirk, J. M. Plavcan, J. G. Fleagle 2012, Paleobiology of Santacrucian primates. Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation. , p. 306 - 330

Systematik