Laguna Blanca (Chubut) (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.9° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 66.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rio Frias Formation, Friasian (16.3 - 15.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. G. Vucetich. 1984. Los roedores de la Edad Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Patagonia. Revista del Museo de la Plata (Nuova serie) Paleontologia 50(8):47-126 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207566: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 20.01.2020, edited by Kateryn Pino

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Simplimus individus n. sp. caviomorph
Holotype: MLP 15-244c
 Rodentia - Coendidae
Disteiromys graciloides n. sp. Ameghino 1904 rodent
Holotype: MACN A 53-1
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Eutypotherium lehmannitschei Roth 1901 notoungulate
Holotype: MLP 12-1701