2.5 km south of Caragua (Miocene of Chile)

Also known as 2.5 km SE of the confluence of the Quebrada Belen and Quebrada Lupica

Where: Parinacota, Chile (18.5° S, 69.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 18.0° S, 67.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huaylas Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• middle section of the Huaylas Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tabular, muddy sandstone

• tabular and cross-bedded (low angle) sandstones with intercalations of mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Montoya-Sanhueza, K. Moreno, R. Bobe, M. T. Carrano, M. GarcĂ­a and A. Corgne. 2017. Peltephilidae and Mesotheriidae (Mammalia) from late Miocene strata of Northern Chilean Andes, Caragua. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75:51-65 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197295: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Caraguatypotherium munozi Flynn et al. 2005 notoungulate
SGO-PV 21101
 Cingulata - Peltephilidae
Epipeltephilus caraguensis n. sp. Montoya-Sanhueza et al. 2017 edentate
SGO-PV 21102