Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.8° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° 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 176572: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cladosictis patagonica Ameghino 1887 metatherian FMNH P13255, skull ("Wreck Flat or Smith's Rock Flat, 10 miles north of Coy Inlet")
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