Also known as Rio Burgay Xenastrapotherium aequatorialis

Where: Cañar, Ecuador (2.8° S, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 74.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Biblian Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Bristow (1973) and Bristow and Parodiz (1982) described andesitic lavas at or near the contact between the Biblian Formation and the overlying Loyola formation, and reported two K-Ar whole rock determinations of 19.7 +/-0.5 and 21.0 +/- 0.6 Ma for one of this lavas outcropping near Descanso on the east side of the CUenca Basin. The Descanso andesite is consider to correspond to the upppermost Biblian formations.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1985

Primary reference: S. E. Johnson and R. H. Madden. 1997. Uruguaytheriine Astrapotheres of Tropical South America. In R. F. Kay, R. H. Madden, R. L. Cifelli, J. J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia 355-382 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/L. Mora-Rojas]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144675: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 15.05.2013

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