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 | |
"Protypotherium attenuatum" = Protypotherium praerutilum
"Protypotherium attenuatum" = Protypotherium praerutilum Ameghino 1887 notoungulate AMNH 9187, cranium, mandible
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