Also known as Cañadón de la Yegua Quemada, Quequa-Quemada, Tagua Quemada
Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.3° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 63.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Santa Cruz Formation, Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by C. Ameghino
Primary reference: S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, and M. S. Bargo. 2012. Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 1-22 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176566: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Microbiotherium tehuelchum5 Ameghino 1887 marsupial MACN 8472, dentary p1-2; 8479, dentary p1-m2; 8480, dentary p3-m4; 8503, dentary p1, m3
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"Sipalocyon gracilis" = Sipalocyon gracilis4 Ameghino 1887 metatherian MACN 9389, dentary p3-m2; MACN 9390, M1; MACN 9391, M3; MACN 9392, vertebra and tooth fragments; all one specimen
"Sipalocyon curtus n. sp." = Sipalocyon gracilis4 Ameghino 1887 metatherian MACN 5962, caudal vertebra; MACN 5960, dentary p1-2; MACN 5961, tooth fragments; all one specimen
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