Also known as Río Loro
Where: Tucumán, Argentina (26.6° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 53.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Río Loro Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• Located in lower section of the formation, Riochican SALMA. Following Flynn and Swisher (1995), Riochican is late Paleocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: Specimens deposited in Paleontología de Vertebrados, Fundación "Miguel Lillo" Tucumán
Primary reference: M. F. Soria. 1989. El primer Notoungulata de la Formación Rio Loro (Paleoceno medio), Provincia de Tucumán, Republica Argentina. Ameghiniana 26(3-4):145-151 [D. Croft/D. Croft/D. Croft]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 41607: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 18.07.2004, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eoastrapostylops riolorense n. gen. n. sp.4
Eoastrapostylops riolorense n. gen. n. sp.4 Soria and Powell 1981 placental PVL 4216 - holotype (skull); paratype: PVL 4217 (incomplete skull)
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Satshatemnus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.
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Rodcania kakan n. gen. n. sp.1
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Notonychops powelli n. gen. n. sp.3
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