Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.6° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 63.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maimará Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Middle section of the Maimara Formation (Upper Miocene) from a stratigraphic level between Ma-3 and Ma-4, with an estimated age of between c. 5.9 and c. 5.8 M
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; massive sandstone
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•Bonini et al 2017: fossiliferous horizon stratigraphically located a few meters above the horizon represented by reddish- brown finer-grained clays and siltstones where other fossils were found (Berman, 1989; Pujos et al., 2012; Abello et al., 2015).
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: Museo de Geología, Mineralogía y Paleontología, Instituto de Geología y Minería, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina
Primary reference: A. M. Candela, M. A. Abello, M. A. Reguero, C. M. García Esponda, U. F. J. Pardiñas, A. A. Zurita, F. Pujos, A. Miño-Boilini, S. Quiñones, C. I. Galli, C. Luna, D. Voglino, M. De Los Reyes and P. Cuaranta. 2023. The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange. Papers in Palaeontology 9(5):e1527 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232411: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.11.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pithanotomys sp., Pithanotomys solisae n. sp.
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