Luracatao Valley (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (25.2° S, 66.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 58.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Barrancan mammal zone, Quebrada de los Colorados Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Powell et al., 2011: Recently, geologic and paleontologic evidence allowed the correlation of the upper levels of Lumbrera with Geste, Casa Grande, and Quebrada de los Colorados Formations. Additionally, these levels were referred to the late-middle Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA -South American Land Mammal Age-, Barrancan subage) by an U/Pb dating of 39.9 Ma . The lower levels of the Lumbrera Formation are here referred to the Vacan subage of the Casamayoran SALMA.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Powell, M. J. Babot, D. A. García López, M. V. Deraco, and C. Herrera. 2011. Eocene vertebrates of northwest Argentina: annotated list. In J. Salfity, R. A. Marquillas (eds.), Cenozoic Geology of the Central Andes of Argentina 349-370 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176660: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 25.02.2016, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Prostegotherium sp. Ameghino 1902 armadillo
Pucatherium parvum Herrera et al. 2012 armadillo