Laguna Blanca and Rio Felix (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Lago Blanco by Ameghino 1906

Where: Chaco, Argentina (27.3° S, 59.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 56.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Mayoan (11.0 - 10.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy tuff

• sandstones, tuffs, tuffites, pelites and con- glomerates (see Dal Mol?ın 1998; Escosteguy et al. 2003; and references cited therein). This unit crops out in several localities in south-western Chubut and north- western Santa Cruz provinces, Argentina (e.g. Lago Blanco, R?ıoF?enix, Arroyo Chal?ıa, R?ıo Huemules, R?ıo Guenguel, Cerro Guenguel, Arroyo Pedregoso; Fig. 1) (see Gonz?alez Ruiz et al. 2017 for discussion on the

•Mayoan localities).

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Vera, L. Gonzalez-Ruiz, N. Novo, G. Martin, A. Reato and M. F. Tejedor. 2019. The Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) of the Friasian sensu stricto and Mayoan (middle to late Miocene), and the fossils from Cerro Zeballos, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(13):1143-1163 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari/K. Pino]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204650: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 16.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Typotheriidae
"Epipatriarchus innexus" = Trachytypotherium sp
"Epipatriarchus innexus" = Trachytypotherium sp Ameghino 1904 notoungulate
MACN-A 11188 - type specimen
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
"Epipatriarchus bifidens" = Protypotherium australe, Protypotherium cf. colloncurensis
"Epipatriarchus bifidens" = Protypotherium australe Moreno 1882 notoungulate
MACN-A 11600
Protypotherium cf. colloncurensis Vera et al. 2017 notoungulate
MLP99-XII-15-1 - identified by Kraglievich 1930 - part of Roth's collection
 Notoungulata - Protypotheriidae
Caenophilus tripartitus
Caenophilus tripartitus Ameghino 1904 notoungulate
MACN-A 10428 and other