Where: Jujuy, Argentina (23.3° S, 65.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 25.4° S, 51.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vacan mammal zone, Lumbrera Formation (Salta Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 48.1 Ma)
• Lumbrera Formation, below Faja Verde Inferior = Lower Lumbrera assemblage, Vacan SALMA (subdivision of Casamayoran)
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•Fernicola et al. 2021 obtained an 238U-206Pb isochron age of 46.2 +/- 7.3 Ma for samples from the Lower Lumberer Fm, suggesting that the Lower section of the formation was deposited between 55–46Ma.
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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Fernández; reposited in the MLP
• Museo de La Plata collection
Primary reference: Z. Gasparini. 1984. New Tertiary Sebecosuchia (Crocodylia: Mesosuchia) from Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(1):85-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92655: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Ayllusuchus fernandezi n. gen. n. sp.
Ayllusuchus fernandezi n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini 1984 crocodilian MLP 72-IV-4-2 - holotype (snout and posterior part of skull)
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