Los Toldos Site III, Level 11: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Camelidae
Lama guanicoe Müller 1776
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 46.2° South, 70.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° South, 70.0° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:12600 ± 600 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: C14
14 levels
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: dates from level 11
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,sieve
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:71337
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:K. Sears
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:1999-03-12 08:00:03 Last modified:2020-11-30 11:40:28
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-12 08:00:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24013. M. T. Alberdi, A.N. Menegaz, and J.L. Prado. 1987. Formas Terminales de Hippidion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) de los Yacimientos del Pleistoceno Tardio-Holoceno de la Patagonia (Argentina y Chile). Estudios Geologia 43:107-115 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/J. Alroy]