Also known as Agua de la Concha at the foot of Cerro Torrecitas

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (33.8° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 66.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• The Tunuyán (nominally Pliocene) and the Huayquerías (nominally Late Miocene) formations both outcrop in this area (Yrigoyen, 1994). In addition, the sediment associated with MACN-PV 8463, a tuffaceous sandstone with fine-grained, immature epiclasts formed by quartz, hornblende, and other inclusions that react strongly to HCl, is more reminiscent of the Tunuyán Formation than the HF (A.C. Garrido, personal commun., 2015).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Forasiepi , R. D. MacPhee, S. Hernández Del Pino, G. Schmidt, E. Amson and C. Grohé. 2016. Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mamalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina: Anatomy, systematics and paleobiological implications. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 404:1-76 [S. Devincenzi/S. Devincenzi/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200116: authorized by Susana Devincenzi, entered by Susana Devincenzi on 15.03.2019, edited by Philip Mannion

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