Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.1° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 64.8° 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; conglomeratic sandstone
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 198547: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 17.12.2018, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Vassallia maxima Castellanos 1946 edentate
Vassallia minuta Moreno and Mercerat 1891 edentate | |
cf. Paraeuphractus sp., Paraeuphractus prominens, Chasicotatus peiranoi, Chasicotatus ameghinoi, Macrochorobates scalabrinii, Vetelia sp.
cf. Paraeuphractus sp. Scillato-Yané 1980 armadillo
Paraeuphractus prominens Moreno and Mercerat 1891 armadillo
Chasicotatus peiranoi Esteban and Nasif 1996 armadillo
Chasicotatus ameghinoi Scillato-Yané 1977 armadillo
Macrochorobates scalabrinii Moreno and Mercerat 1891 armadillo
Vetelia sp. Ameghino 1891 armadillo | |
Orthomyctera sp. Ameghino 1889 caviomorph
cf. Dolichotis sp. Desmarest 1820 mara | |
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha | |
Tetrastylus sp. Ameghino 1886 caviomorph
Tetrastylus laevigatus Ameghino 1886 caviomorph
Tetrastylus intermedius Rovereto 1914 caviomorph | |
Octodontoidea "cf. Sciamys" Waterhouse 1839 caviomorph
Octodontoidea "cf. Acarechimys" Waterhouse 1839 caviomorph | |
Chasicomys sp. Pascual 1967 caviomorph | |
Neophanomys sp. Rovereto 1914 caviomorph
Neophanomys biplicatus Rovereto 1914 caviomorph | |
Phtoramys sp. Ameghino 1887 caviomorph | |
Abrocoma cf. boliviensis chinchilla rat | |
Tremacyllus incipiens Rovereto 1914 notoungulate |