Río Chico (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.1° S, 67.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° S, 57.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Casamayoran SALMA, Middle-Late Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by C. Ameghino in c. 1900

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1967. The Ameghinos' localities for early Cenozoic mammals in Patagonia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136:63-76 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176283: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 05.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
"Pleurostylodon obscurus n. sp." = Pleurostylodon modicus2
"Pleurostylodon obscurus n. sp." = Pleurostylodon modicus2 Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
MACN 10574, M3
 Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae
"Trigonostylops subtrigonus n. sp." = Trigonostylops wortmani2
"Trigonostylops subtrigonus n. sp." = Trigonostylops wortmani2 Ameghino 1897 placental
MACN 10642, maxilla M1-3
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Coelutaetus cribellatus n. gen. n. sp.1
Coelutaetus cribellatus n. gen. n. sp.1 Ameghino 1902 armadillo
MACN 10426, broken plate