Ensenada Harbor, La Plata (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (34.9° S, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 57.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ensenada Formation, Ensenadan (1.8 - 0.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Bagnalasta. 1980. Algunas consideraciones sobre la validez del género Epieuryceros Ameghino 1889. Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología 3:183-192 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140653: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 14.03.2013, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.1
Gomphotheriidae indet.1 Hay 1922 gomphothere
MLP-68-X-31-1 MACN A 606
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis ensenadensis n. sp." = Lycalopex ensenadensis2
"Canis ensenadensis n. sp." = Lycalopex ensenadensis2 Ameghino 1888 South American fox
MLP 10-56 (holotype), incomplete mandible
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Epieurycerus truncus" = Epieuryceros truncus
"Epieurycerus truncus" = Epieuryceros truncus Ameghino 1889 deer
scillatoi n. subsp.
1Mothé et al. 2017; 2Ramirez and Prevosti 2014