Also known as ECC-012

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.8° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° S, 65.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Boleadoras Formation (Río Zeballos Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• They cite FRANCHI, M., MADDEN, R. H., MAZZONI, M. M. & SWISHER, C. C. III. (in press): Stratigraphy and geochronology of the mammal-bearing middle Miocene "Friasian" of Patagonia. Journ. South Amer. Earth Sci.

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•The Cerro Boleadoras Formation contains vertebrate fossils that were respectively assigned to the Santacrucian SALMA (lower Miocene) by Carlini et al. (1993) and Vucetich (1994) and to the Friasian SALMA (upper lower to middle Miocene) by Scillato-Yané et al. (1993) (see Fig. 3). Espinoza et al. (2010) obtained four K/Ar ages between ~16 and 14 Ma for the Zeballos Volcanic Sequence in the top of the Río Zeballos Group (see Fig. 3).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1990-1993

Primary reference: G. J. Scillato-Yané and A. A. Carlini. 1998. Nuevos Xenarthra del Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Argentina. Studia geologica salmanticensia 34:43-67 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197692: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 22.11.2018

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