Darwinius masillae (Bild: Jens L. Franzen)

La Estrella, Argentinien

Fundort: La Estrella, Argentinien, Chubut, Argentinien
Taxon: Mazzonicebus almendrae aus der Familie Homunculidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, It consists of an isolated outcrop of the Sarmiento Formation. The fossil-bearing bed is around 15 m below a flow basalt, herein correlated with the uppermost flow basalt recorded in the Scarritt Pocket section. Relative age younger than Deseadan and not older than Colhuehuepian. The authors correlate the La Estrella section with the lower Colhue-Huapi Member., The section is 18 m thick and characterized by a monotonous succession of mostly massive, fine tuffs (Figure 2). The lowermost 6 m are pinkish gray in color, and contain floated medium size mammal remains. The upper part displays whitish and light greenish grey tuffs, and displays insect pupation chambers (Fictovichnus sp.) and small-sized mammal remains in place, including the material herein reported. This and other outcrops fill small depressions or directly lie above the basaltic plateau conforming the Meseta del Canquel, and are close to the classical vertebrate locality “Scarritt Pocket”, located at approximately 25 km to the east (Marshall, Cifelli, Drake, & Curtis, 1986) (Figure 1). The fossil-bearing bed is around 15 m below a flow basalt, herein correlated with the uppermost flow basalt recorded in the Scarritt Pocket section.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:		 zwischen 17,5 und 21, Millionen Jahre aus der Sarmiento Formation in Argentinien
Geologie, Sratigraphie Aquitanian, Burdigalian / Colhuehuapian / Sarmiento
Koordinaten: 44° 35 ' 37 '' S, 69° 5 ' 47 '' W
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz

Literatur

N. M. Novo, M. F. Tejedor, M. E. Pérez, J. M. Krause 2017, New primate locality from the early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 164, p. 861 - 867, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23309

Systematik