Also known as Boca del Coyle, Río Coyle, Puerto Coyle

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.0° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 63.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Cruz Formation, Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)

• Novo et al 2018: Santa Cruz Formation, late-early Miocene (Burdigalian Age) (see Marshall 1976; Tauber 1997; Buffetaut 2014), approximately 16.1-16.5 Ma (Fleagle et al. 2012) (Fig. 1).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by C. Ameghino, J.B. Hatcher, B. Brown, E.S. Riggs & Tournouër

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 176576: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Grace Varnham

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