Also known as Pampeano

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (34.6° S, 59.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 59.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• JA: said by Moreno and Mercerat to be "Miocene" but certainly Late Pleistocene or perhaps early Holocene based on assignment of Glossotherium robustum specimen to the Upper "Pampean" by Bargo et al. 2000

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MLP

Primary reference: F. P. Moreno and A. Mercerat. 1891. Catálogo de los pájaros fósiles de la República Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata [Catalogue of the fossil birds from the Argentine Republic housed in the Museo de La Plata]. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 1:7-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88836: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.04.2009, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Carrano and Grace Varnham

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