Atlantic coastal cliffs of Partido General Pueyrredon & General Alvarado (Pliocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.0° S, 57.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 56.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chapadmalal Formation, Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• Also had a tentative Montehermosan age assigned?

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. A. Reig and C. A. Quintana. 1992. Fossil ctenomyine rodents of the genus Eucelophorus (Caviomorpha: Octodontidae) from the Pliocene and early Pleistocene of Argentina. Ameghiniana 29(4):363-380 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206622: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 22.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
 Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Eucelophorus chapadmalalensis n. sp. caviomorph
Holotype: MACN 11551. Also MMP 370-S, MMP 487 -S