Cabo Raso (upper level) (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.3° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 59.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Busker, L. M. Giachetti, and G. Martínez. 2023. Un pueblo olvidado y su resurgimiento: primeros registros fósiles del Cenozoico de Cabo Raso (Chubut, Argentina) y sus implicancias paleobioestratigráficas. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 23(2):146-163 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232404: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 16.11.2023

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
Soriamys gaimanensis Kramarz 2001 caviomorph
MPEF-PV 11540, 11541
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Eoviscaccia australis Vucetich 1989 chinchilid
MPEF-PV 11538
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
MPEF-PV 11539
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Hegetotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1894 notoungulate
MPEF-PV 11544
cf. Pachyrukhos sp. Ameghino 1885 notoungulate
MPEF-PV 11542, 11543