Cañadón Silva (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.2° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 63.4° 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 176584: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016, edited by Miranta Kouvari

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Acarechimys minutus1 Patterson and Pascual 1967 caviomorph
MMP-PV 15039
 Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
Prozaedyus proximus3 Ameghino 1887 edentate
MPM-PV 3428, mandible, carapace, femur fragments
 Megatherioidea -
Pelecyodon cristatus2 Ameghino 1891 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Hapalops "sp. 1"2 Ameghino 1887 edentate
Hapalops "sp. 2"2 Ameghino 1887 edentate
 Xenarthra - Myrmecophagidae
Protamandua rothi2 Ameghino 1904 edentate
 Sparassodonta -
Cladosictis patagonica2 Ameghino 1887 metatherian