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 | |
Smilodon populator Lund 1842 saber-toothed cat | |
Morenelaphus bonaerense New World deer | |
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental | |
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus" = Equus caballus, Hippidion sp.
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus" = Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse | |
Neochoerus cf. tarijensis caviomorph | |
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
Doedicurus clavicaudatus Owen 1847 glyptodon
Glyptodon reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon | |
Neosclerocalyptus sp. Paula Couto 1957 edentate | |
Glossotherium sp., Lestodon armatus, Catonyx tarijensis2, Scelidotherium cf. tarijense, Scelidotherium leptocephalum
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855 edentate
Scelidotherium cf. tarijense Gervais 1855 edentate
Scelidotherium leptocephalum Owen 1839 edentate | |
Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere |