Monte Tigre–Cañadón Totoras level 8.5 (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 206241: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium australe Moreno 1882 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Adinotherium cf. ovinum Owen 1846 notoungulate
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Hapalops sp., "Pseudhapalops rutimeyeri" = Hapalops rutimeyeri, Eucholoeops sp.
Hapalops sp. Ameghino 1887 edentate
"Pseudhapalops rutimeyeri" = Hapalops rutimeyeri Ameghino 1891 edentate
Eucholoeops sp. Amegino 1887 edentate