Puerta de Corral Quemado (Chiquimil - El Jarillal sup) (Neogene of Argentina)

Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.2° S, 66.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 64.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Jarillal Member (Chiquimil Formation), Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

• In Figure 3 they sum up the chronobiostratigraphy of locality Puerta de Corral Quemade and locality Villavil. Information about this locality (age, geology etc) mostly come from this figure.

•*dataciones absolutas de Latorre et al. (1997) (Date based on study on d13C and d18O.)** datación ab- soluta de Sasso (1997); las edades de la columna Ma son asignadas de acuerdo a la tasa de sedimentación

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy sandstone

• The environment proposed for El Jarillal Member (Chiquimil Formation) and lower levels of the Andalhuala Formations is savanna- like, with small forests and a wet season with a progressive aridification toward the top of the Andalhuala Formation.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Esteban, N. Nasif, and S. M. Georgieff. 2014. Cronobioestratigrafía del Mioceno tardío – Plioceno temprano, Puerta de Corral Quemado y Villavil, provincia de Catamarca, Argentina. Acta geológica lilloana 26(2):165-192 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 198543: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 17.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Proeuphractus limpidus
Proeuphractus limpidus Ameghino 1886 armadillo
  - Mylodontidae
Proscelidodon gracillimus
Proscelidodon gracillimus Rovereto 1914 edentate
FMNH P 14450
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp.
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Cardiomys sp.
Cardiomys sp. Ameghino 1885 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Paranamys sp., Tetrastylus sp., Tetrastylus intermedius
Paranamys sp. Kraglievich 1934 caviomorph
Tetrastylus sp. Ameghino 1886 caviomorph
Tetrastylus intermedius Rovereto 1914 caviomorph
 Rodentia -
Octodontoidea indet., Neophanomys sp.
Octodontoidea indet. Waterhouse 1839 caviomorph
Octodontoidea cf Eumysops sp.
Neophanomys sp. Rovereto 1914 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Abrocomidae
Abrocoma cf. boliviensis