Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.6° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° S, 63.5° 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
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 176569: 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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Cladosictis patagonica4 Ameghino 1887 metatherian AMNH 9134, partial skull, mandible, vertebrae and fragments; AMNH 9548, right dentary p2-m4, left dentary p1-m4; AMNH 9574 = USNM 5936, right dentary p1-m3, left dentary p1-m1, m4
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"Interatherium robustum" = Interatherium extensus1
"Interatherium robustum" = Interatherium extensus1 Fernández et al. 2023 notoungulate AMNH 15194, cranium and mandible
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