Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.8° S, 62.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° S, 59.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Azul Formation, Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

• Late Huayquerian (Late Miocene–earliest Pliocene; late Messinian–early Zanclean; see below; Deschamps et al., 2013). This deposit has a numerical dating of 5.28±0.04 Ma (Schultz et al., 2006).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. M. Deschamps and R. L. Tomassini. 2016. Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update. In M. Martínez, D. Olivera (eds.), Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio 16(2):202-225 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198862: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 16.01.2019, edited by Kateryn Pino

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