La Curandera 1 (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.9° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 63.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Colhuehuapian (21.0 - 17.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "creciones silíceas", similar to Sacanana

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Pascual in 1982

Primary reference: F. Goin, A. Abello, E. Bellosi, R. Kay, R. Madden and A. Carlini. 2007. Los Metatheria sudamericanos de comienzos del Neógeno (Mioceno Temprano, Edad-mamí­fero Colhuehuapense). Parte I: Introducción, Didelphimorphia y Sparassodonta. Ameghiniana 44(1):29-71 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176436: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 12.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Borhyaena macrodonta
Borhyaena macrodonta Ameghino 1902 metatherian
MLP 82-V-4-3, maxillary fragment with P2-3