Chubut River Valley, Gaiman (Ameghino) (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.3° S, 65.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.8° S, 62.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Trelew Member (Sarmiento Formation), Colhuehuapian (21.0 - 17.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Carlos Burmeister; reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: F. D. Seoane, E. Cerdeño, and L. C. Gaetano. 2023. Reassessment of Tegehotherium burmeisteri Ameghino 1903–1904 (Notoungulata, Hegetotheriidae) and a new phylogenetic analysis of Hegetotheriidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2258172:1-17 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232372: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.11.2023

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Tegehotherium burmeisteri n. gen. n. sp. Ameghino 1904 notoungulate
MACN-PV 2540 - holotype