Also known as Puesto El Molle - Molle Grande

Where: Catamarca, Argentina (26.6° S, 66.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 64.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: El Morterito Formation, Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

• The fossiliferous beds correspond to the El Morterito Formation (Turner, 1973), sequence II of the Playa del Zorro ‘‘alloformation’’ (Bossi et al., 1992, 1993; Esteban and Nasif, 1996). The upper part of this sequence (IIb and IIc subsequences) is correlated with the Andalhuala Formation in the Santa Mar ́ıa Valley, Catamarca Province (Bossi et al., 1993).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, fine-grained sandstone and lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, green siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. L. Nasif, S. Musalem, and E. Cerdeño. 2000. A new toxodont from the late Miocene of Catamarca, Argentina, and a phylogenetic analysis of the Toxodontidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):591-600 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141369: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 26.03.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Miranta Kouvari

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