15 miles South of Monte León (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.4° S, 69.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 49.8° S, 66.8° W (Wright 2013)

• 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

Reposited in the AMNH

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176568: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
"Protypotherium attenuatum" = Protypotherium praerutilum
"Protypotherium attenuatum" = Protypotherium praerutilum Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
AMNH 9187, cranium, mandible