Where: Moquegua, Peru (17.3° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° S, 65.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Moquegua Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: Museo de Historia Natural, Lima
Primary reference: B. J. Shockey, R. S. Gismondi, P. Gans, A. Jeong, and J. J. Flynn. 2009. Paleontology and geochronology of the Deseadan (late Oligocene) of Moquegua, Peru. American Museum Novitates 3668:1-24 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 176471: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 13.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Moqueguahippus glycisma Shockey et al. 2006 notoungulate "MUSM 676, left premaxilla with fragment of anterior maxilla with damaged and or badly worn anterior teeth: I2, I3, dC and C, dP1, and dP2 and P2, found at Cerro Santa Ana by Eucebio Diez"
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