Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.0° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 59.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Divisadero Largo Formation, Divisaderan (42.0 - 36.0 Ma)
• Middle Eocene based on López (2010).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1970. Addition to the knowledge of Groeberia (Mammalia, Marsupialia) from the mid-Cenozoic of Argentina. Breviora 362:1-17 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27906: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 16.01.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Groeberia pattersoni n. sp.
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Reptilia | |
Chelidae indet. sideneck turtle |