Balneario Saldungaray Upper San José (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.7° S, 61.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° S, 61.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• San José Sequence

•Middle Pleistocene

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained conglomerate and coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Cátedra de Geología Histórica from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca

Primary reference: C. M. Deschamps. 2005. Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 42(4):733-750 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61307: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 04.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha
hind limb