Rio Tercero, Los Leones, Córdoba (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (32.2° S, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° S, 63.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 213477: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 01.09.2020, edited by Grace Varnham and William Gearty

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
MACN Pv 17376
 Cingulata - Panochthidae
Neosclerocalyptus sp.1
Neosclerocalyptus sp.1 Paula Couto 1957 edentate
PIMUZ A/V 455, 4135
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp.1, Glyptodon sp.2
Panochthus sp.1 Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
PIMUZ A/V 4095
Glyptodon sp.2 Owen 1839 glyptodon
MCNC-PV-246: 90 osteoderms of the dorsal shell, 19 of the caudal rings, diaphysis of the right tibia and fibula, a vertebra, right ilium and right portion of the ischium
1Le Verger 2023; 2Luna and Krapovickas 2011