Tafi Viejo (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Tucuman, Argentina (26.7° S, 65.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 65.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. E. Ortiz, D. A. Garcia-Lopez, M. C. Madozzo Jaen and G. I. Esteban. 2019. Síntesis actualizada del registro paleontológico pleistoceno en el Noroeste argentino. Mioceno al Pleistoceno del centro y norte de Argentina 574-605 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216686: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 23.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
cf. Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
This material was referred by Esteban et al. (1988) as cf. Palaeolama sp. and erroneously listed as Hemiauchenia paradoxa in Ortiz et al. (2019a); here (Torres-Carro et al., 2020) we confirm the presence of Palaeolama in Tucumán Province
 Cingulata - Panochthidae
Sclerocalyptus cf. ornatus Owen 1845 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon reticulatus, "Neothoracophorus cf. depresus" = Glyptodon, Panochthus cf. tuberculatus
Glyptodon reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
"Neothoracophorus cf. depresus" = Glyptodon glyptodon
Panochthus cf. tuberculatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidodon sp. Ameghino 1881 edentate