Playa Kiyú (Miocene of Uruguay)

Also known as Kiyú Beach

Where: San José, Uruguay (34.7° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 54.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: San Pedro Member (Camacho Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Also known as Kiyú Formation

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; gray, green, sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Primary reference: A. Rinderknecht, D. Perea, and H.G. McDonald. 2007. A New Mylodontinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Camacho Formation (Late Miocene), Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):744-747 [D. Croft/B. Kaphingst]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79347: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Bettina Kaphingst on 03.03.2008, edited by Juan Carrillo and Miranta Kouvari

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata -
Pseudoplohophorus sp.2
Pseudoplohophorus sp.2 Castellanos 1926 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Lestobradys sprechmanni n. gen. n. sp.1, Kiyumylodon lecuonai n. gen. n. sp.
Lestobradys sprechmanni n. gen. n. sp.1 Rinderknecht et al. 2010 edentate
Kiyumylodon lecuonai n. gen. n. sp. Rinderknecht et al. 2007 edentate
FCDPV 1829, almost complete right mandibular ramus including a full dentition.
1Rinderknecht et al. 2010; 2Toriño and Perea 2018