Bahia de Colonia del Sacramento (Miocene of Uruguay)

Where: Uruguay (34.5° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 55.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camacho Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Toriño and Perea 2018: Camacho formation, Huayquerian in age.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Verde and D. Perea. 1992. Mamiferos "mesopotamienses" (Xenarthra, Litopterna y Cetacea) (Mioceno Superior) de la Bahia de Colonia, Uruguay. Boletin de la Sociedad Zoologica del Uruguay 7:31-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80364: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.04.2008, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Kateryn Pino

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Iniidae
Saurocetes argentinus
Saurocetes argentinus Burmeister 1871 toothed whale
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macraucheniinae indet.
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Gyriabrus holmbergi1
Gyriabrus holmbergi1 Ameghino 1885 caviomorph
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Pliomorphus ameghinioi
 Cingulata -
Pseudoplohophorus sp.2, Pseudoplohophorus coloniensis2
Pseudoplohophorus sp.2 Castellanos 1926 edentate
Pseudoplohophorus coloniensis2 Kraglievich 1932 edentate
1Rasia 2023; 2Toriño and Perea 2018