Where: Cordoba, Argentina (32.4° S, 63.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 61.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Huayquerian to Huayquerian (8.0 - 3.8 Ma)
• "La antiguedad de la fauna es Pliocena, entre las edades Huaqueriense y Montehermosense".
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. L. Kraglievich and O. Reig. 1954. Un nuevo Procionido del Plioceno de Las Playas (Provincia de Córdoba). Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 9(9):210-231 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140630: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 13.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Xotodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 notoungulate | |
cf. Trigodonops sp. Kraglievich 1930 notoungulate | |
Dasypodidae indet. Gray 1821 armadillo | |
Cyonasua groeberi n. sp.
Cyonasua groeberi n. sp. Kraglievich and Reig 1954 procyonid carnivore | |
Proterotheriidae indet. Ameghino 1887 placental | |
Cardiatherium sp. Ameghino 1883 caviomorph | |
Neosteiromys sp. Rovereto 1914 rodent | |
Reptilia | |
Tupinambis sp. Daudin 1802 tegu |