First point north of Barranca de los Lobos, level III-IV (Pliocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.0° S, 58.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 56.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chapadmalal Formation, Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1972. Didelphidae from the Chapadmalal formation in the Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales of Mar del Plata. Mar del Plata: Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales 2(1):1-40 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14175: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 21.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus marplatensis n. sp. Reig 1952 peccary
holotype=MMP-S 25
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Didelphis reigi n. sp. large American opossum