Where: Jujuy, Argentina (22.9° S, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 65.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The fossil bearing stratum was C-14 dated to late Pleistocene in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: spring; fine-grained claystone and fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Fernandez. 1986. Hippidion: New Data on the now extinct American Horse in Northwest Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic implications. Current Research in the Pleistocene 3:64-67 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140909: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse |