Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.5° S, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 62.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• assigned to the "Agua Blanca Sequence;" proposed to be Platan SALMA and middle Holocene in age
•C14 date on collagen of 1960 +/- 100 yr based on a sample of Lama guanicoe
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
• Cátedra de Geología Histórica from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca
Primary reference: C. M. Deschamps and E. P. Tonni. 1992. Los vertebrados del Pleistoceno tardío del arroyo Napostá Grande, provincia de Buenos Aires. Aspectos paleoambientales. Ameghiniana 29(3):201-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63338: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.02.1999, edited by Darin Croft
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Chaetophractus villosus Desmarest 1804 big hairy armadillo
Zaedyus pichiy Desmarest 1804 pichi | |
Reithrodon auritus Fischer 1814 bunny rat
Calomys sp. Waterhouse 1837 vesper mouse
Holochilus brasiliensis Desmarest 1819 Brazilian marsh rat | |
Ctenomys sp. de Blainville 1826 caviomorph | |
Cavia aperea Erxleben 1777 Brazilian guinea pig | |
Pseudalopex aff. gymnocercus Fischer 1814 pampas fox | |
Ozotoceros bezoarticus Linné 1758 Pampas deer | |
Lama guanicoe Müller 1776 guanaco | |
Thylamys pusillus Desmarest 1804 fat-tailed mouse opossum
Lestodelphys halli Thomas 1921 Patagonian opussum | |
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Tinamidae indet., "Nothura darwini" = Nothura darwinii
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