Where: Chubut, Argentina (42.7° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 65.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Collón Cura Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• The area of exposure of Cruces Infinitos is ∽2.5 km2, and it is constituted by ∽60 m thick of volcaniclastic sediments

•Fossils collected in five different levels in the base of the section, but as the authors do not clearly separate the specimens per level, all the occurrences are grouped into a single collection point for the moment.

Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone and siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MEF

Collection methods: mechanical,

• The materials collected in the localities studied in this work are deposited in the (a): LIEB-PV, Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Evolución y Biodiversidad (PV, Paleovertebrados), Esquel, Argentina; (b): MPEF-PV, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio - Paleontología de Vertebrados, Trelew, Argentina.

Primary reference: J. Bucher, M. E. Pérez, L. R. González Ruiz, L. D'Elia, and A. Bilmes. 2020. New middle Miocene (Langhian - Serravallian) vertebrate localities in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: A contribution to high latitude south american land mammal ages sequence. Journal of South American Earth Sciences [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215594: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 17.11.2020

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