Cerro El Chancho (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: La Pampa, Argentina (36.9° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 62.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chasicoan mammal zone, Cerro Azul Formation, Chasicoan (10.0 - 9.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. J. Urrutia, C. I. Montalvo, and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 2008. Dasypodidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata) de la Formación Cerro Azul (Mioceno tardío) de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45(2):289-302 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206264: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 06.11.2019, edited by Kateryn Pino

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Chasicotatus ameghinoi Scillato-Yané 1977 armadillo
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Paedotherium minor Cabrera 1937 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
"Typotheriopsis silveyrai" = Typotheriopsis chasicoensis
"Typotheriopsis silveyrai" = Typotheriopsis chasicoensis Cabrera and Kraglievich 1931 notoungulate
GHUNLPam 8910