Where: Chile (50.7° S, 72.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 50.0° S, 69.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Río Baguales & Río Bandurrias Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Marine fossils come from the Río Baguales formations, which are 750 m thick (Cecioni, in Hoffstetter et al., 1957, p. 309) and Río Bandurrias more than 615 m thick (sensu Cortés, 1964, p. 8), which apparently are equivalent to the Sentinel Formation (Oligocene Superior- Lower Miocene) located adjacent in Argentina.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Mr. Osear Vidal, owner of the La Cumbre ranch, located along the Chilean-Argentine border, about 115 km north of Puerto Natales, has formed a large personal collection of fossils

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 207602: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 21.01.2020

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