PBDB Collection

San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Also known as Barranca del Parana, San Nicolas

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (33.3° S, 60.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° S, 59.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ensenadan (1.8 - 0.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Santiago Roth; reposited in the MLP

Primary reference: D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213446: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 01.09.2020, edited by Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae	Scelidotherium leptocephalum³, Catonyx tarijensis³, Catonyx cuvieri³ Scelidotherium leptocephalum³ Owen 1839 edentate PIMUZ A/V 513, 532 Catonyx tarijensis³ Ameghino 1891 edentate PIMUZ A/V 512 Catonyx cuvieri³ Lund 1839 edentate PIMUZ A/V 523
Cingulata - Panochthidae	Neosclerocalyptus sp.³, Neosclerocalyptus pseudornatus³ Neosclerocalyptus sp.³ Paula Couto 1957 edentate PIMUZ A/V 452, 474 Neosclerocalyptus pseudornatus³ Ameghino 1889 edentate PIMUZ A/V 439
Cingulata - Glyptodontidae	Glyptodon sp.³, Glyptodon munizi³ Glyptodon sp.³ Owen 1839 glyptodon PIMUZ A/V 4097 Glyptodon munizi³ Ameghino 1881 glyptodon PIMUZ A/V 4150
Cingulata - Dasypodidae	Eutatus sp.³ Eutatus sp.³ Gervais 1867 armadillo PIMUZ A/V 4126
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Notiomastodon platensis Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere MLP-8-63
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Morenelaphus sp.¹ Morenelaphus sp.¹ Carette 1922 New World deer PIMUZ A/V 4162 antler
Artiodactyla - Camelidae	Camelidae indet.¹, Lamini "n. sp."⁴, Hemiauchenia cf. paradoxa¹ Camelidae indet.¹ Gray 1821 camel PIMUZ A/V 4165 Skull, mandibles, 2 humerus, 2 radius left femur, 2 tibia, 2 articulated tarsus/metatarsus, etc. Lamini "n. sp."⁴ Webb 1965 camel PIMUZ A/V 4165 Hemiauchenia cf. paradoxa¹ Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel PIMUZ A/V 4201
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Hippidion sp.¹ Hippidion sp.¹ Owen 1869 horse PIMUZ A/V 4238
Rodentia - Caviidae	Dolichotis sp.² Dolichotis sp.² Desmarest 1820 mara PIMUZ/AV 4131

¹Carrillo‐Briceño et al. 2023; ²Kerber 2023; ³Le Verger 2023; ⁴Lynch et al. 2020