Also known as Laguna del Laja

Where: Bío Bío, Chile (37.5° S, 71.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 66.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Colhuehuapense zone, Cura-Mallín Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Lower exposures of the Cura-Mallín Formation (Tcm1)

•Charrier and Croft 2015: En este sector destaca la presencia de un notoungulado leontiniido, Colpodon antucoensis, recolectado en el estero Correntoso, y descrito por Shockey et al. (2012). Este ejemplar se encuentra en uno de los niveles fosilíferos de la parte inferior de la Formación Cura-Mallín (Figura 13), entre niveles datados en 19,53±0,60 Ma y 19,25±1,22 Ma, lo cual lo ubica en el Colhuehuapense.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; volcaniclastic, muddy sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2001-2005; reposited in the SGOPV

Primary reference: J. J. Flynn, R. Charrier, D. A. Croft, P.B. Gans, T. M. Herriott, J. A. Wertheim, and A. R. Wyss. 2008. Chronologic implications of new Miocene mammals from the Cura-Mallín and Trapa Trapa formations, Laguna del Laja area, south Central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26:412-426 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140103: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 01.03.2013, edited by Philip Mannion

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