El Carmen Upper, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (47.2° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 64.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pinturan zone, Pinturas Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Pertains to "Middle Sequence" = "Pinturan" of Kramaz and Bellosi, 2005

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: T. M. Bown and C. N. Larriestra. 1990. Sedimentary paleoenvironments of fossil platyrrhine localities, Miocene Pinturas Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Journal of Human Evolution 19(1-2):87-119 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59326: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 26.03.2006, edited by Juan Carrillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Tetramerorhinus fleaglei4 Kramarz and Bond 2005 placental
2 specimens
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Prostichomys bowni2 Kramarz 2001 spiny rat
1 specimen
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Branisamyopsis praesigmoides2 Kramarz 2004 porcupine
1 specimen
 Rodentia -
Eosteiromys annectens2 Ameghino 1901 caviomorph
1 specimen
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys intermedius1 Kramarz 2002 caviomorph
6 specimens
 Rodentia -
Luantus propheticus3 Ameghino 1899 caviomorph
1 specimen