Lago Cardiel, Pinturas Fm., Río Chico, Santa Cruz (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as Estancia La Cañada

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.0° S, 71.4° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 65.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pinturas Formation, Santacrucian (17.5 - 16.3 Ma)

• Pertains to "Upper Sequence" according to Kramarz and Bellosi, 2005 = typical Santacrucian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 59334: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 26.03.2006, edited by Grace Varnham, Juan Carrillo and Jelle Zijlstra

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Marsupialia - Herpetotheriidae
"Acdestis owenii" = Acdestis oweni1 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
Propalaeothentes lepidus3 Bown and Fleagle 1993 marsupial
SC-1237
Palaeothentes lemoinei3 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
MACN SC- 1238
 Rodentia -
Adelphomys candidus5 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
5 specimens
 Rodentia - Acaremyidae
Acaremys murinus2 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
2 specimens
 Rodentia -
Acarechimys minutissimus5 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
2 specimens, MACN-PV SC4091 (also ref 72683)
Spaniomys modestus5 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
2 specimens
Stichomys sp.5 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
4 specimens
 Rodentia - Eocardiidae
Phanomys mixtus6 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
4 specimens
 Rodentia -
Neoreomys australis7 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
4 specimens
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys osbornianus7 Ameghino 1894 caviomorph
1 specimen
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys erutus4 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
3 specimens