Where: San José, Uruguay (34.6° S, 57.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 55.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: San José Formation, Montehermosan to Montehermosan (5.0 - 0.4 Ma)

• The currently available biostratigraphic data limits the age of the San José Formation from the Montehermosan to Ensenadan.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, pebbly, gray, green, yellow, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: FC-DPV

Primary reference: H. G. McDonald and D. Perea. 2002. The large Scelidothere Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pleistocene of Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):677-683 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139924: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 21.02.2013

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