Miramar (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.3° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 57.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ensenadan (1.8 - 0.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. R. Miño-Boilini. 2016. Additions to the knowledge of the ground sloth Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Pilosa) in the Pleistocene of Argentina. Paläontologische Gesellschaft 90:173-183 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212772: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 20.08.2020, edited by Miranta Kouvari

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.2 Hay 1922 gomphothere
MMPH 8
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidodon sp.1 Ameghino 1881 edentate
MMPH 090, MMPH 091
Catonyx tarijensis Ameghino 1891 edentate