Where: Chile (52.6° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 65.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palomares Formation, Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)

• It was E. Miocene but the Palomares fm is equivalent to the Santa Cruz formation in the adjacent regions. Palomares (=Santa Cruz Formation; Bostelmann et al., 2013).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and calcareous tuff

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hemmer in 1935

• Fossils sent to Dr. C. L. Gazin in the Smisthonian museum.

Primary reference: L. G. Marshall and P. Salinas Z. 1990. Vertebrados continentales del Mioceno inferior de Magallanes, Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Serie Ciencias Naturales 19(1):27-38 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207598: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 21.01.2020

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