El Molino (Miocene to of Argentina)

Where: Tucumán, Argentina (27.3° S, 65.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 64.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian to Messinian (7.2 - 3.6 Ma)

• Armella et al. 2018: due to the small thickness of the profile, its assignment to a specific section is hardly accurate. The presented phylogeny places the remains of X. caravela at approximately 5.5-4Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone

• Armella et al. 2018: The stratigraphic section is composed of alternating of beds (from 1 to 1.5 m thick) that contain very fine-grained grayish brown to brown sandstones, with fining-upward texture and more or less defined cross-bedding structure, interbedded with beds of light brown siltstones with a massive structure. Some sandstone beds have erosional bases, with rip-up clasts. There are carbonate concretions and bioturbation in the sandstone levels.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Xotodon caravela type, PVL6579, collected by Arvella et al. 2018 is currently housed in Coleccion Paleontologıa Vertebrados Lillo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina.

Primary reference: M. A. Armella, D. A. García-lópez, and L. Dominguez. 2018. A new species of Xotodon (Notoungulata, Toxodontidae) from northwestern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(1):e1425882 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201725: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 23.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Xotodon caravela n. sp.
Xotodon caravela n. sp. Armella et al. 2018 notoungulate
Holotype: PVL6579, referred material: PVL 7457