Where: Salta, Argentina (25.4° S, 65.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 63.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The mammalian remains described here come from the lower section of the Palo Pintado Fm. (Fig. 1b). In the Tonco Valley, this unit has a partial thickness of 176m, the basal contact is transitional with the Angastaco Formation and the upper contact is an erosional unconformity with Quaternary sediments.

•Fossiliferous levels= level 0-4 (numbered from bottom to top).

•The age of fossil-bearing levels is approximately between 8 and 7 Ma (Payrola et al. in prep). cor- responding to the late Tortonian or the Messinian/Tortonian boundary (Cohen et al., 2013).

•deposited between 10.29 ± 0.11 Ma (K/Ar) to 5.27 ± 0.28 Ma (206 P b/238U; Coutand et al., 2006; Carrapa et al., 2006; Galli et al., 2008, 2014).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained sandstone and lenticular, medium-grained conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: The fossil specimens described below are housed in the Vertebrate Paleontology collections of the Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA (IBIGEO-CONICET), Salta Province, Argentina.

Primary reference: N. Zimicz, P. Payrola, and C. Papa. 2018. New, Late Miocene mammalian assemblage from the Palo Pintado Formation (Northwestern Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 81:31-44 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197784: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 26.11.2018, edited by Kateryn Pino

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