Cerro Centinela (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.6° S, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 65.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santacrucian mammal zone, Bon Acord Member, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• from the "Notohippian" beds (etage Notohippien) of Ameghino

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Pascual and O. Rivas in 1968; reposited in the MLP

Primary reference: L. R. Gonzalez and G. J. Scillato-Yané. 2009. A new Stegotheriini (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) from the "Notohippian (early Miocene)of Patagonia, Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen 252(1):81-90 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145899: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 12.06.2013, edited by Jelle Zijlstra, Miranta Kouvari and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Stegotherium notohippidensis Gonzalez and Scillato-Yané 2009 edentate
 Panameriungulata - Adianthidae
Adianthinae indet.3 placental
MLP 68-I-17-192, dentary m1-2
 Rodentia -
Adelphomys sp.2 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
MLP 68-I-17–69, MLP 68-I-17–70/ 80, MLP 68-I-17–135/140, MLP 68-I-17–141, MLP 68- I-17–143, MLP 68-I-17–147 and MLP 68-I-17–203
 Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Parabderites sp.4 Ameghino 1902 marsupial
Palaeothentes lemoinei1 Ameghino 1887 marsupial