National Road number 11, near Villa La Rivera (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Also known as La Rivera town; La Ribera; Railway bridge over the Carcaraña River

Where: Sante Fé, Argentina (32.6° S, 60.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 60.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Timbúes Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Carcarañá beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Osvaldo Coronel in 1930-1940; reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: R. I. Vezzosi, A. Rotti, and L. S. Avilla. 2020. ‘A very lazy deer’: revision of the cotype of Nothropus carcaranensis (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Ameghiniana [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213109: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Nothropus carcaranensis n. sp. Bordas 1942 edentate
MACN specimen: type (partial dentary)
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Morenelaphus sp. Carette 1922 New World deer
MACN-Pv 12630 (originally described as the cotype of Nothropus carcaranensis)