Cantagalo (Miocene of Brazil)

Also known as PRJ 19

Where: Acre, Brazil (9.1° S, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 71.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Solimões Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Kerber, F. R. Negri, A. M. Ribeiro, M. G. Vucetich, and J. P. Souza-Filho. 2016. Late Miocene potamarchine rodents from southwestern Amazonia, Brazil – with description of new taxa. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(1):191-203 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191931: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 23.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Potamarchus adamiae n. sp. Kerber et al. 2016 caviomorph
Holotype: palate with M1–M3 (UFAC-CS 11).