General Roca City (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Rio Negra, Argentina (39.1° S, 67.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 62.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chichinales Formation, Colhuehuapian (21.0 - 17.5 Ma)

• lower-level deposits of formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. B. Quadros, P. Chafrat, and H. Zaher. 2018. A New Teiid Lizard of the Genus Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838 (Squamata, Teiidae), from the Lower Miocene of Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(4):1-19 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201681: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 20.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Teiidae
Callopistes rionegrensis n. sp. Quadros et al. 2018 squamates
MPCN PV-002