Barrancas de Chapadmalal (Pliocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.2° S, 57.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 56.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Quiroga. 1988. Cuantificacion de la corteza cerebral en moldes endocraneanos de mamiferos girencefalos. Procedimiento y aplicacion en tres mamiferos extinguidos. Ameghiniana 25(1):67-84 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206598: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 21.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sparassodonta - Thylacosmilidae
Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs 1933 metatherian
MMP 1443 from Goin and Pascual 1985