Monte Tigre–Cañadón Totoras level 8.3 (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Estancia La Angelina

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.3° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° 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)

• 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 206239: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Neoreomys australis Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium praerutilum Ameghino 1887 notoungulate
Protypotherium cf. praerutilum Ameghino 1887 notoungulate