• The Santacrucian age is a period of geologic time (17.5 – 16.3 Ma) within the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically with SALMA classification...
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    Ma) Laventan (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) Colloncuran (15.5 to 13.8 Ma) Friasian (16.3 to 15.5 Ma) Santacrucian (17.5 to 16.3 Ma) Colhuehuapian (21.0 to 17.5 Ma)...
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    a phorusrhacid dubious) Genus ?Brontornis – Early to Middle Miocene (Santacrucian–Laventan) Santa Cruz and Monte León Formations, Argentina – gigantic...
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    Peltephilus (category Santacrucian)
    Collón Curá Formation and Santacrucian Santa Cruz Formation Bolivia – Colloncuran Nazareno Formation Chile – Santacrucian Chucal Formation Paleontology...
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  • the SALMA classification are defined in the basin; the Early Miocene Santacrucian from the Santa Cruz Formation and Friasian from the Río Frías Formation...
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    Santa Cruz Formation (category Santacrucian)
    late Early Miocene epoch, and is contemporaneous with the eponymous Santacrucian age of the SALMA (South American land mammal age) timescale. The Santa...
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    pusillus (late early Miocene, Santacrucian SALMA) Genus Perathereutes Perathereutes pungens (late early Miocene, Santacrucian SALMA) Genus Sallacyon Sallacyon...
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    record and a new species of seriema (Aves: Ralliformes: Cariamidae) from Santacrucian (early–middle miocene) Beds of Patagonia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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    Brontornis (category Santacrucian)
    floweri Ameghino, 1895 and Callornis giganteus Ameghino, 1895, from the Santacrucian (late Early Miocene) of Argentina. Palaeovertebrata, 40, e3. Agnolin...
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    record and a new species of seriema (Aves: Ralliformes: Cariamidae) from Santacrucian (early–middle miocene) Beds of Patagonia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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    Stegotherium (category Santacrucian)
    Patagonia and was found in Colhuehuapian rocks from the Sarmiento Formation, Santacrucian rocks from the Santa Cruz Formation, and potentially also in Colloncuran...
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    Psilopterus (category Santacrucian)
    in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina dating to the Middle Miocene (Santacrucian). The most important diagnostic characteristics are a low skull and upper...
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    Noriega, J. I., & Areta, J. I. (2012). Diversity and paleobiology of the Santacrucian birds. Early Miocene paleobiology in Patagonia: high-latitude paleocommunities...
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  • Pseudoacaremys is an extinct genus of acaremyid that lived during the Santacrucian. Pseuodacaremys kramarzi is known from the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina...
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    Theosodon (category Santacrucian)
    Approach to the Biomechanics of the Masticatory Apparatus of Early Miocene (Santacrucian Age) South American Ungulates (Astrapotheria, Litopterna, and Notounguluata):...
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    1902 by Florentino Ameghino based on a single specimen found in the Santacrucian-aged Colpodon Beds of Argentina. Ameghino in 1902 placed Proschismotherium...
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    Noriega, J. I., & Areta, J. I. (2012). Diversity and paleobiology of the Santacrucian birds. Early Miocene paleobiology in Patagonia: high-latitude paleocommunities...
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  • classification in South America. It follows the Deseadan and precedes the Santacrucian age. The age is named after the Colhué Huapí Member of the Sarmiento...
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  • specifically within the SALMA classification of South America. It follows the Santacrucian and precedes the Colloncuran age. The age is named after the Río Frías...
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    Pelagornis (category Santacrucian)
    Caparica or Fonte de Pipa, Tagus Basin, Portugal Castillo (Colhuehuapian-Santacrucian) and Capadare Formations (Laventan-Mayoan), Venezuela Pliocene Greta...
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    Vizcaino, S. F., Fernicola, J. C., & Bargo, M. S. (2012). Paleobiology of Santacrucian glyptodonts and armadillos (Xenarthra, Cingulata). Early Miocene paleobiology...
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    Nesodon (category Santacrucian)
    In particular, fossils of Nesodon are known from late early Miocene (Santacrucian SALMA) deposits of Argentina and Chile. Three species of Nesodon are...
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  • (under specimen number MACN A-11687) that had been unearthed from the Santacrucian sediments of Santa Cruz, Argentina. Ameghino described it as a species...
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    Eocardia (category Santacrucian)
    Eocardia Temporal range: Early-Middle Miocene (Santacrucian) ~17.5–16.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Skeletal restoration Scientific classification...
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    Sergio F.; Kay, Richard F.; Bargo, M. Susana (eds.), "Paleobiology of Santacrucian native ungulates (Meridiungulata: Astrapotheria, Litopterna and Notoungulata)"...
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    genera such as Rhynchippus and Eurygenium were very high-crowned, and Santacrucian genera had acquired cementum on the crowns similar to equids. The last...
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    Aglaocetus (category Santacrucian)
    Aglaocetus have been found in: Miocene Gaimán Formation (Colhuehuapian-Santacrucian), Argentina Diest and Berchem Formations, Belgium Eibergen Member, Netherlands...
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    during the Middle-Upper Miocene in the Americas, primarily among the Santacrucian (17.5–16.3 mya) and Friasian (16.3–15.5) sites of Argentina, Uruguay...
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  • "Hiskatherium saintandrei, gen. et sp. nov.: an unusual sloth from the Santacrucian of Quebrada Honda (Bolivia) and an overview of middle Miocene, small...
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  • an ethnic group of Peru Santa Crucino language, a language of Peru Santacrucian, a period in geologic time Santa Cruz (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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