Also known as Curuzú Cuatiá
Where: Corrientes, Argentina (29.8° S, 58.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 51.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fray Bentos Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the MACN
Primary reference: G. Billet, C. Muizon, and B. Mamani-Quispe. 2008. Late Oligocene mesotheriids (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla and Lacayani (Bolivia): implications for basal mesotheriid phylogeny and distribution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:153-200 [C. Jaramillo/A. Cardenas /K. Pino]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176650: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 23.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ameghinotherium curuzucuatiense n. gen. n. sp." = Trachytherus spegazzinianus
"Ameghinotherium curuzucuatiense n. gen. n. sp." = Trachytherus spegazzinianus Ameghino 1889 notoungulate MACN 6867, partial skull, holotype
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