Cañadón Las Totoras level 11 (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (51.4° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 63.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Tauber, 1997: nivel fosilífero 10 (Tauber, 1997), last level of Estancia La Coste. Estancia La Angelina follows (>10)

•All the remains come from sediments assigned to the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206243: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 05.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Palaeothentes sp. Ameghino 1887 marsupial
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
Sciamys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
 Rodentia -
"Eocardia perforata" = Eocardia robusta
"Eocardia perforata" = Eocardia robusta Vucetich 1984 caviomorph
 Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
Prozaedyus sp. Ameghino 1891 edentate