"Holotype The specimen SGO.PV.21700 includes a right mandible fragment with the right condylar and coronoid processes, an atlas fragment, an axis fragment, two cervical vertebrae fragments (fifth and seventh cervical vertebrae), one fragmentary thoracic vertebra (second thoracic vertebra), left scapula fragment, left ulna-radius fragment (midshaft to distal end preserved), seven carpal elements (partial left scaphoid, partial left and complete right lunate, left cuneiform, left pisiform, left magnus and right unciform), three metacarpals (right Mc II, a fragmentary left Mc III and a fragmentary Mc II or Mc IV) and six phalanges (two proximal of the right digit II and left digit III, and four intermediate, one of the digit III and three of the digits II and/ or IV; Fig.3)" (Pschel et al, 2023)

Micrauchenia saladensis was named by Püschel et al. (2023). Its type specimen is SGO.PV.21700 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Quebrada Remolón, which is in a Tortonian/Messinian coastal sandstone/conglomerate in the Bahía Inglesa Formation of Chile.