Baliza Chica (Pliocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.3° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 56.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chapadmalal Formation, Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: A. I. Olivares and D. H. Verzi. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and evolutionary pattern of the hystricognath rodent Eumysops (Echimyidae) from the Plio–Pleistocene of southern South America. 27(8):1042-1061 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198825: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 14.01.2019, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Eumysops chapalmalensis Ameghino 1908 spiny rat
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium chapadmalense n. sp. Kraglievich 1925 edentate
MACN 8675 - type