Corral Quemado (Neogene to of Argentina)

Also known as Corral Quemada

Where: Catamarca, Argentina (27.0° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 65.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corral Quemado Formation, Huayquerian to Huayquerian (8.0 - 3.8 Ma)

• Middle Pliocene

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. E. Zurita. 2007. Los Hoplophorini (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) del “Araucanense” (Mioceno tardío-Plioceno) del noroeste de la Argentina: sistemática, paleobiogeografía y paleoambientes. Ameghiniana 44(2):257-269 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206027: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 29.10.2019, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Procariama simplex1 Rovereto 1914 terror bird
 Gruiformes - Hermosiornithidae
"Mesembriornis incertus" = Prophororhacos incertus1
"Mesembriornis incertus" = Prophororhacos incertus1 Rovereto 1914 bird
Mammalia
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Hyperdidelphys pattersoni3 Reig 1952 opossum
FMNH P14519 mandibular fragment
 Sparassodonta - Thylacosmilidae
"Thylacosmilus atrox n. sp." = Thylacosmilus atrox4, "Thylacosmilus lentis n. sp." = Thylacosmilus atrox4
"Thylacosmilus atrox n. sp." = Thylacosmilus atrox4 Riggs 1933 metatherian
Holotype: P14531; Paratype: P14344
"Thylacosmilus lentis n. sp." = Thylacosmilus atrox4 Riggs 1933 metatherian
P14474
 Cingulata -
"Eosclerocalyptus proximus" = Eosclerocalyptus proximus, "Eosclerocalyptus planus" = Eosclerocalyptus proximus2, Hoplophractus proximus2, Phlyctaenopyga ameghini2
"Eosclerocalyptus proximus" = Eosclerocalyptus proximus Moreno and Mercerat 1891 edentate
"Eosclerocalyptus planus" = Eosclerocalyptus proximus2 Moreno and Mercerat 1891 edentate
MLP 31-XI-12-13
Hoplophractus proximus2 Moreno and Mercerat 1891 edentate
MLP 31-XI-12-19, 12-21,
Phlyctaenopyga ameghini2 Moreno 1882 edentate
MLP 31-XI-12-7