Rinconada de Los Lopez (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.3° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 59.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Casamayoran mammal zone, Casamayoran (56.0 - 48.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: L. G. Marshall. 1982. Systematics of the extinct South American marsupial family Polydolopidae. Fieldiana Geology 12:1-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175742: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2016, edited by Jelle Zijlstra

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Didolodontidae
Didolodontidae indet.2 Simpson 1934 placental
AMNH 28945, M3
 Polydolopimorphia - Polydolopidae
Amphidolops serrula2 Ameghino 1902 metatherian
AMNH 28929, palatal fragment M2-3; 28923, M3; 28922, m2; 28933, m2
Polydolops thomasi2 Ameghino 1897 metatherian
Type locality of _P. t. mara_: AMNH 28921, mandible m1-3, holotype; AMNH 28930, mandibular fragment with m1
"Eudolops hernandezi n. sp." = Kramadolops hernandezi Marshall 1982 metatherian
AMNH 28932, a fragment of a left maxilla
 Polydolopimorphia - Rosendolopidae
Rosendolops primigenium1 Goin and Candela 1996 metatherian
AMNH 28928, isolated upper molar