Rincón del Zampal ( of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.9° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° S, 61.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmiento Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the MLP

Primary reference: M. A. Reguero and E. Cerdeño. 2005. New late Oligocene Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):674-684 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176490: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 14.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Prohegetotherium sculptum Ameghino 1897 notoungulate
MLP 59-II-26-108