Cañadón Silva Fossiliferous Level 5.2 (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.2° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 63.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Tauber. 1997. Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia. Ameghiniana 34(4):517-529 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206234: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Steiromys detentus Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Hegetotherium mirabile Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotherium sp. Burmeister 1879 placental