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, 56.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Marplatan (Sanandresian) zone, San Andres Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Upper Uquian

•Marplatan (Sanandresian subage)

• 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 206723: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 25.11.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Eucelophorus zaratei Reig and Quintana 1992 caviomorph