El Degolladito - Site 2 (Neogene of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (28.3° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 64.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Salicas Formation, Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

• Structured sandstones with ripples, thin parallel bedding and cross bedding structures

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnológica de La Rioja, Sección Paleozoología

Primary reference: D. Brandoni, G. I. Schmidt, A. M. Candela, J. I. Noriega, E. Brunetto and L. E. Fiorelli. 2012. Mammals from the Salicas Formation (Late Miocene), la Rioja Province, northwestern Argentina: Paleobiogeography, age and environment. Ameghiniana 49(3):375-387 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151506: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 05.10.2013, edited by Kateryn Pino

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Paedotherium minor
Paedotherium minor Cabrera 1937 notoungulate
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
Metacaremys primitiva
Metacaremys primitiva Piñero et al. 2021 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Caviidae
cf. Cardiomys sp., Orthomyctera sp.
cf. Cardiomys sp. Ameghino 1885 caviomorph
Orthomyctera sp. Ameghino 1889 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp.
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Hoplophorini indet.
Hoplophorini indet. Huxley 1864 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Macrochorobates sp., Chasicotatus sp.
Macrochorobates sp. Scillato Yané 1980 armadillo
Chasicotatus sp. Scillato-Yané 1977 armadillo