Corral Quemado - level 21 (Pliocene of Argentina)

Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.0° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 65.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corral Quemado Formation (level 21 Group), Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• Middle Pliocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Alvarez and M. D. Ercoli. 2017. Why pacaranas never say no: analysis of the unique occipitocervical configuration of †Tetrastylus intermedius Rovereto, 1914, and other dinomyids (Caviomorpha; Dinomyidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6):e1385476 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205958: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 28.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Tetrastylus intermedius Rovereto 1914 caviomorph
FMNH P 14514