Monte Tigre Level 8 (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.3° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Estancia Angelina (levels >10) is on top of Estancia la Costa member (levels 1-10)

• formation-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 206236: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
"Proeutatus oenophorus" = Proeutatus oenophorum
"Proeutatus oenophorus" = Proeutatus oenophorum Ameghino 1887 edentate
 Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Astrapotherium sp. Burmeister 1879 placental
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium australe Moreno 1882 notoungulate
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
"Proterotherium" intermedium Ameghino 1894 placental