Cabo Buen Tiempo (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Cape Fairweather, Rudd's Estancia, Estancia Cabo Buen Tiempo, Cañadon Palo

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.6° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 63.2° 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 176588: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 17.02.2016, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Homalodotheriidae
Homalodotherium segoviae2 Ameghino 1891 notoungulate
FMNH P13092
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Hegetotherium mirabile1 Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
YPM-VPPU 15176, humerus, ulna
Pachyrukhos sp.3 Ameghino 1885 notoungulate
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Prolagostomus sp.3 Ameghino 1887 chinchilid
 Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
Proeutatus robustus4 Scott 1903 edentate
YPM-VPPU 15389, femur, tibia, pes