Also known as Santa Cruz River

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.0° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° S, 62.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• from "the Patagonian beds" and "Lower Miocene" (possibly the Early Miocene Monte Leon Formation based on location)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1899; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: F. W. True. 1910. Description of a skull and some vertebrae of the fossil cetacean Diochtichus vanbenedeni from Santa Cruz, Patagonia. American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 28:19-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116539: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.09.2011

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