Also known as Unit 32 of Corral Quemado Formation
Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.2° S, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 65.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Corral Quemado Formation, Montehermosan (6.8 - 4.0 Ma)
• "unit 32 of Corral Quemado Formation at Puerta de Corral Quemado, Departamento de BelĂ©n, Catamarca Province, Northwest Argentina"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by R. D. Thorne; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: L. G. Marshall. 1981. Review of the Hathlyacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials. Fieldiana Geology 7:1-120 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176757: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 29.02.2016, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Borhyaenidium riggsi n. sp.
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Lutreolina sp. Thomas 1910 lutrine opossum | |
Paleuphractus argentinus Moreno and Mercerat 1891 armadillo | |
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Pronothrotherium typicum Ameghino 1907 edentate | |
Brachytherium laternarium placental | |
Promacrauchenia antiqua Ameghino 1887 placental | |
Paramyocastor diligens Ameghino 1888 caviomorph | |
Hemihegetotherium sp. Rovereto 1914 notoungulate
Hemihegetotherium robustum notoungulate | |
Xotodon sp. Ameghino 1887 notoungulate |