Where: Mendoza, Argentina (34.0° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 66.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The specimen comes from the lower levels of the Tunuyán Formation, overlying a tuff dated to < 5.8 Ma (Garrido et al. 2017).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Piñero, D. H. Verzi, A. I. Olivares, C. I. Montalvo, R. L. Tomassini and A. Fernández Villoldo. 2021. Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):1859-1917 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230710: authorized by Juan Carrillo, entered by Kateryn Pino on 14.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)