Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.2° S, 57.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 56.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marplatan mammal zone, San Andres Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Marplatan Age/Stage, Sanandresian Subage/Substage
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. H. Verzi and C. A. Quintana. 2005. The caviomorph rodents from the San Andrés Formation, east-central Argentina, and global Late Pliocene climatic change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 219(3-4):303-320 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 123525: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 25.01.2012, edited by Juan Carrillo
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cavia galileoi n. sp.
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Ctenomys chapalmalensis Ameghino 1908 caviomorph | |
Abalosia castellanosi Rusconi 1933 caviomorph | |
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Eumysops sp. Ameghino spiny rat |