Where: Catamarca, Argentina (25.4° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 67.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Tebenquiche Chico constituye una pequeña aldea agrícola habitada entre los siglos IV y XII de nuestra era (entre 1610 y 880 años AP) y reocupada en el siglo XVII.

•Tebenquiche Chico constitute a small farming village inhabited between IV and XII Century and re-occupied in XVII Century.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, massive lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Chinchilla chinchilla: TC1 171, right maxilla

•Chinchilla chinchilla: TC1 170, left mandible

•Lagidium sp.: TC1 108, maxilla

Primary reference: P. E. Ortiz, J. P. Jayat, N. L. Nasif, P. Teta, and A. Haber. 2012. Roedores del Holoceno tardío de la Puna de Atacama, sitio arqueológico Tebenquiche Chico, Catamarca, Argentina. Archaeofauna 21:249-266 [L. Rasia/L. Rasia]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211784: authorized by Luciano Rasia, entered by Luciano Rasia on 27.07.2020

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