Arroyo Napostá Grande (Miembro Limo Arenoso Superior) (Holocene of Argentina)

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

• grey clayey sandstone with lamination, bioturbation, and numerous gastropods, presumably lacustrine

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

• preliminary list given by Deschamps and Tonni 1989
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Chaetophractus villosus Desmarest 1804 big hairy armadillo
Zaedyus pichiy Desmarest 1804 pichi
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Reithrodon auritus Fischer 1814 bunny rat
Calomys sp. Waterhouse 1837 vesper mouse
Holochilus brasiliensis Desmarest 1819 Brazilian marsh rat
 Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys sp. de Blainville 1826 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Cavia aperea Erxleben 1777 Brazilian guinea pig
 Carnivora - Canidae
Pseudalopex aff. gymnocercus Fischer 1814 pampas fox
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Ozotoceros bezoarticus Linné 1758 Pampas deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Lama guanicoe Müller 1776 guanaco
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Thylamys pusillus Desmarest 1804 fat-tailed mouse opossum
Lestodelphys halli Thomas 1921 Patagonian opussum
Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
mandibles
Dendrocygna sp. Swinson 1837 whistling duck
mandibles
"Anas cf. platalea" = Spatula platalea Vieillot 1816 red shoveler
mandibles
 Rheiformes - Rheidae
Rhea sp. Brisson 1760 rhea
postcrania
 Tinamiformes - Tinamidae
Tinamidae indet., "Nothura darwini" = Nothura darwinii
Tinamidae indet. Gray 1840 tinamou
postcrania
"Nothura darwini" = Nothura darwinii Gray 1867 Darwin's nothura
postcrania
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. frog
postcrania
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Cyprinodontiformes indet. Bertin 1958
scales