Estancia El Recado (Miocene to of Argentina)

Also known as Caleufu

Where: La Pampa, Argentina (35.7° S, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 62.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Azul Formation, Chasicoan to Chasicoan (10.0 - 9.0 Ma)

• Montalvo and Rocha 2003: Mioceno tardío-Plioceno temprano?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: depositados en la Colección de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (GHUNLPam).

Primary reference: C. I. Montalvo and A. M. Rocha. 2003. Presencia de Neocavia Kraglievich (Rodentia, Caviidae) en la Formación Cerro Azul (Mioceno tardío - Plioceno temprano?) de La Pampa, Argentina. Ameghiniana 40(3):501-504 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204494: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 10.09.2019, edited by Kateryn Pino

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Neocavia pampeana n. sp.1 Madozzo-Jaén et al. 2018 caviomorph
GHUNLPam 19550, 19559, 19566, 19568, 19581 and other
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Pseudotypotherium subinsigne2 Rovereto 1914 notoungulate
GHUNLPam 21137, 19840, 19868
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Paedotherium minor2 Cabrera 1937 notoungulate
GHUNLPam multiple specimens
Tremacyllus impressus2 Ameghino 1888 notoungulate
GHUNLPam 21476