Upper Rio Purus (Miocene of Brazil)

Where: Amazonas, Brazil (8.2° S, 70.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Probably late Miocene; horizon approximately equivalent in age to the ParanĂ¡ of Entre Rios, Argentina, and situated at or near the base of Singewald's "Brown Beds" Series.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. H. Roper; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: B. Patterson. 1942. Two Tertiary mammals from Northern South America. American Museum Novitates 1173:1-7 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148207: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 15.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Phoberomys bordasi n. sp. Patterson 1942 caviomorph
Type: Amer. Mus. No. 22666