Where: Araucania, Chile (38.5° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° S, 66.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santacrucian zone, Rio Pedregoso Member (Cura-Mallín Formation), Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)

• The mandible described by this reference (SGOPV 5226), was collected from the western border of the southern sub-basin of the Cura-Mallin Basin, within the sedimentary facies ol the Cura-Mallin Formation (Rio Pedregoso Member).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Repository: Vertebrate Paleontology collections, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago (Chile) (SGOPV)

Primary reference: D. Croft, J. Radic, E. Zurita, R. Charrier, J. J. Flynn and A. R. Wyss. 2003. A Miocene toxodontid (Mammalia: Notoungulata) from the sedimentary series of the Cura-Mallín Formation, Lonquimay, Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 30(2):285-298 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144463: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juliana Ceballos on 08.05.2013, edited by Grace Varnham

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