New Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna from Western Patagonia, Argentina

• Main Authors: Tejedor, Marcelo Fabián, Goin, Francisco Javier, Gelfo, Javier Nicolás, López, Guillermo Marcos, Bond, Mariano, Carlini, Alfredo Armando, Scillato Yané, Gustavo Juan, Woodburne, Michael O., Chornogubsky, Laura, Aragón, Eugenio, Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo, Czaplewski, Nicholas J., Vincon, Sergio, Martín, Gabriel Mario, Ciancio, Martín Ricardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Paleontología; Paleogene; Patagonia; SALMA; La Meseta; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Chubut; Salma; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/138889

Two new fossil mammal localities from the Paleogene of central-western Patagonia are preliminarily described as the basis for a new possible biochronological unit for the early Eocene of Patagonia, correlated as being between two conventional SALMAs, the Riochican (older) and the Vacan subage of the...