Also known as Contamana locus n. 43

Where: Peru (7.4° S, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 73.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mayoan mammal zone, Pebas Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Mayoan SALMA

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•Marivaux, et al. 2016: earliest late Miocene (i.e., Mayoan SALMA), based on biochronological data

•Marivaux, et al. 2016: CTA-43 indicate an earliest late Miocene age ($11 Ma; Mayoan South American Land Mam- mal Age [SALMA]) for this locality (Antoine et al., 2016, in press

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 2016

• Marivaux, et al. 2016: the fossils are in the collections of the Vertebrate Paleontology Department of the “Museo de Historia Natural—Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos” (MUSM), in Lima, Peru

Primary reference: P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. A. Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, and F. Corfu. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176133: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.01.2016, edited by Miranta Kouvari

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