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

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.2° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 56.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vorohué Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Vorohuen

•VorohuĂ© Formation, Marplatan Age/Stage, Vorohuean Subage/Substage (late Pliocene).

• 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 206623: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 22.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
Eucoelophorus zaratei n. sp. caviomorph
Holotype: MMP 2012-M. Also other material