Playa del Barco (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (39.0° S, 61.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° S, 61.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Age: Lujanian (Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene). A radio- carbonic dating yielded an age of 16.440±320 14 C years BF (Aramayo, 1997).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. M. Deschamps and R. L. Tomassini. 2016. Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update. In M. Martínez, D. Olivera (eds.), Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio 16(2):202-225 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198875: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 16.01.2019, edited by Katherine Magoulick and Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842 saber-toothed cat
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Morenelaphus sp.1 Carette 1922 New World deer
Morenelaphus lujanensis1 New World deer
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus" = Equus caballus, Hippidion sp.
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus" = Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse
 Rodentia - Caviidae
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
Doedicurus clavicaudatus Owen 1847 glyptodon
Glyptodon reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Panochthidae
Neosclerocalyptus sp. Paula Couto 1957 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855 edentate
Catonyx tarijensis2 Ameghino 1891 edentate
Scelidotherium cf. tarijense Gervais 1855 edentate
Scelidotherium leptocephalum Owen 1839 edentate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere