San Jose (Rio Carcaraña, between San Jose de la Esquina and Casilda) (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Also known as Carcaraña river

Where: Santa Fé, Argentina (32.9° S, 61.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 61.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189523: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 25.10.2017, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Chelonoidis sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
giant size
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.1 Hay 1922 gomphothere
MLP-47-IV-9-2
 Carnivora - Canidae
Protocyon sp.2 Giebel 1855 canine
MACN-Pv 11606