Also known as Horcones
Where: Salta, Argentina (25.7° S, 64.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 64.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Piquete Formation (Orán Group), Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.8 Ma)
• Jujuy subgroup
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Barrios. 2013. Presencia de Caiman latirostris (Daudin, 1802) (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) en la Formación Piquete (Plioceno–Pleistoceno temprano) de la Provincia de Salta, Argentina implicancias paleoambientales y sistemáticas. Ameghiniana 50(5):522-534 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174226: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Caiman latirostris Daudin 1801 broud-snouted caiman MAS-PALEO-Rosario de la Frontera 001/ 2011 (skull, mandibles and postcrania)
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