Ingeniero Jacobacci (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Estancia Los Sauces

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (41.3° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° S, 65.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Colloncuran mammal zone, Colloncuran (15.5 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MLP

Primary reference: G. J. Scillato-Yané. 1976. El más antiguo Mylodontinae (Edentata, Tardigrada) conocido: Glossotheriopsis pascuali n. gen., n. sp., del "Colloncurense" (Mioceno superior) de la Provincia de Río Negro (Argentina). Ameghiniana 13(3-4):333-334 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140637: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 13.03.2013, edited by Miranta Kouvari

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotheriopsis pascuali n. gen. n. sp. Scillato-Yané 1976 edentate
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Prolagostomus rosendoi n. sp. Vucetich 1984 chinchilid
Holotype: MLP 76-VIII-30-3
Pliolagostomus friasensis Vucetich 1984 chinchilid
MLP 76-VIII-30-5
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
Massoiamys obliquus n. sp. Vucetich 1978 caviomorph
Holotype: MLP 76-VIII-30-2