Cantera Relleno Sanitario Level 1 (Neogene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.8° S, 62.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° S, 59.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Xenodontomys ellipticus mammal zone, Saldungaray Formation, Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

• a late Huayquerian SALMA age is proposed

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•Materials were recovered from two levels at the middle of the exposure. This is level 1.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic siltstone

• silty-loessic sediments of the "Pampean Sediments"
• Level 1 is a paleosol

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Cátedra de Geología Histórica from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca

Primary reference: C. M. Deschamps. 2005. Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 42(4):733-750 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61298: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 04.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Sparassodonta -
cf. Borhyaenidium sp.
cf. Borhyaenidium sp. Pascual and Bocchino 1963 metatherian
mandible fragment(s)
 Rodentia - Octodontidae
Phtoramys cf. hidalguense
Phtoramys cf. hidalguense Pascual et al. 1965 caviomorph
mandible fragment(s)
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Promacrauchenia sp.
Promacrauchenia sp. Ameghino 1904 placental
metapodials
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Macrochorobates sp.
Macrochorobates sp. Scillato Yané 1980 armadillo
osteoderms