Pilcaniyeu Viejo (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negro, Argentina (41.2° S, 70.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 66.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pilcaniyeu Member (Collón Cura Formation), Colloncuran (15.5 - 13.8 Ma)

• Probably Pilcaniyeu member.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Albino. 1996. Snakes from the Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina) Part I: The Booidea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 199(3):417-434 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61265: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 02.06.2006, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Kateryn Pino

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Eocardiidae
Matiamys elegans n. sp.1 Vucetich 1984 caviomorph
Holotype: MACN 14.565
 Rodentia -
Plesiacarechimys koenigswaldi n. gen. n. sp.2 Vucetich and Vieytes 2006 caviomorph
Holotype: MLP 91-V-1-55
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Pliolagostomus friasensis1 Vucetich 1984 chinchilid
MLP 74-II-1-32 and 33
Reptilia
 Squamata - Boidae
Boinae indet. Gray 1825 boa