Cerro Bagual, Cerro Mentira (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.5° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmiento Formation, Mustersan (48.0 - 42.0 Ma)

• Mustersan SALMA - Middle to Late Eocene according to Woodburne et al. (2014)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 175760: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.01.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Pyrotheriidae
Propyrotherium saxeum Ameghino 1901 placental
MLP 61-IV-17-1-2
 Polydolopimorphia - Polydolopidae
"Polydolops mayoi" = Kramadolops mayoi
"Polydolops mayoi" = Kramadolops mayoi Odreman Rivas 1978 metatherian
MLP 61-VIII-3-329