El Caño Creek (lower level) (Pleistocene of Uruguay)

Also known as El Cano

Where: Uruguay (34.4° S, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 57.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dolores Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Described as the Libertad Formation in Ubilla et al. (2009), but as the Dolores Formation in Corona et al. (2013)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; brown, green mudstone

• brown-greenish pelitic levels

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Ubilla, D. Perea, A. Rinderknecht and A. Corona. 2009. Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotations. Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul 217-230 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211646: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.07.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Propraopus sp. Ameghino 1881 armadillo
 Cingulata -
Neuryurus sp. Ameghino 1889 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon
Doedicurus sp. Burmeister 1874 glyptodon
  - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855 edentate
Scelidotheriinae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837 notoungulate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
cf. Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Felis cf. onca" = Panthera onca
"Felis cf. onca" = Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia sp. Owen 1838 placental
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Rodentia -
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha
 Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Ctenomyidae indet. Lesson 1842 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Galea ortodonta caviomorph