Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.4° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Protypotherium australe mammal zone, Estancia La Costa Member (Santa Cruz Formation), Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)

• Tauber, 1997: nivel fosilífero 10 (Tauber, 1997), last level of Estancia La Coste. Estancia La Angelina follows (>10)

•All the remains come from sediments assigned to the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene).

•Tauber (1997) proposes a preliminary biostratigraphic scheme based on the differentiation of two Biozones:

•the Interval Biozone of Protypotherium attenuatum Ameghino, 1887 (Interatheriidae) (fossiliferous levels 3 to 7) and the Interval Biozone of Protypotherium australe Ameghino, 1887 (Interatheriidae) (fossiliferous levels 8 to 10).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. R. Gonzalez and G. J. Scilalto-Yané. 2008. Una nueva especie de Stegotherium Ameghino (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae, Stegotheriini) del Mioceno de la provincia de Santa Cruz (Argentina). Ameghiniana 45(4):641-648 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204358: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 06.09.2019

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