Where: Córdoba, Argentina (31.9° S, 64.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 63.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brocherense zone, Brochero Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Tauber et al. 2019: Estas fueron correlacionadas por Castellanos (1958) con niveles similares, expuestos en el valle de San Alberto (“Brocherense”).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Tauber, J. Krapovickas, L. E. Cruz and J. Chiesa. 2019. Estratigrafía, paleontología y paleoambientes del Plioceno de la provincia de Córdoba. Opera lilloana 52: Mioceno al Pleistoceno del centro y norte de Argentina 389(417) [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211573: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 22.07.2020, edited by Miranta Kouvari
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Lagostomopsis sp." = Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)
"Lagostomopsis sp." = Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis) Kraglievich 1926 viscacha | |
Orthomyctera brocherense Castellanos 1936 caviomorph
Palaeocavia brocherense Castellanos 1936 caviomorph
Microcavia isolinense Castellanos 1936 caviomorph | |
Felis pumoides Castellanos 1958 cat | |
Nonotherium sp. Castellanos 1942 notoungulate | |
Paedotherium sp., "Paedotherium isolinense" = Paedotherium bonaerense
Paedotherium sp. Burmeister 1888 notoungulate
"Paedotherium isolinense" = Paedotherium bonaerense Ameghino 1887 notoungulate | |
"Isolinia reartense" = Isolinia cordubensis
"Isolinia reartense" = Isolinia cordubensis Castellanos 1936 edentate | |
Hoplophorus sp. Lund 1838 edentate | |
Plaina brocherense Castellanos 1936 edentate | |
Macroeuphractus sp. Ameghino 1887 armadillo
Doellotatus sp. Bordas 1932 armadillo |