Barda Negra 1 (Miocene of Argentina)

Also known as BN1

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.0° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 64.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Bandera Formation, Colhuehuapian (21.0 - 17.5 Ma)

• Kramarz et al. (2005) concluded that the fossil- bearing deposits of the Cerro Bandera Formation correlate with the Lower Faunal Zone in the Colhue Huapi Member of the Sarmiento Formation at Gran Barranca (south of Colhue Huapi Lake, central Patagonia), dated at 21.1–20.1 Ma (Dunn et al., 2013), the type section for the Colhuehuapian South American Land Mammal Age (SALMA).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; paleosol/pedogenic, bentonitic, tuffaceous volcaniclastic sediments

• The Cerro Bandera Formation is 45 m-thick and consists

•of pyroclastic deposits showing evidence of fluvial rework- ing and/or pedogenesis, alternating with primary fall-out pyroclastic deposits, with abundant bentonitic horizons in the lower section and scant intercalated sandstones in the upper section. The abundant tuffaceous and tuffitic con- tents would have originated from discontinuous ash fall derived from Andean or sub-Andean volcanic centers. The origin of these deposits is associated with a fluvial environ- ment in an intermontane foreland basin; lacustrine deposits accumulated in the central, topographically lower areas of the paleovalleys, whereas paleosols accumulated in the marginal, higher areas. This depositional system resulted in marked lateral facies variations among the currently isolated exposures (Leanza and Hugo, 1997; Kramarz et al., 2005).

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 2015; reposited in the MACN, MLP

Primary reference: A. G. Kramarz, M. G. Vucetich, and M. Arnal. 2013. A new Early Miocene chinchilloid hystricognath rodent; an approach to the understanding of the early chinchillid dental evolution. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20:249-261 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89028: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 29.04.2009, edited by Juan Carrillo, Jelle Zijlstra and Miranta Kouvari

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
"Protypotherium sinclairi" = Protypotherium columnifer1
"Protypotherium sinclairi" = Protypotherium columnifer1 Fernández et al. 2021 notoungulate
 Rodentia -
Garridomys curunuquem n. gen. n. sp.
Garridomys curunuquem n. gen. n. sp. Kramarz et al. 2013 caviomorph
Holotype: MOZ-PV-920, left mandible fragment with p4- m3 and incomplete incisor. Hypodigm: The holotype and the following specimens: MOZ-PV-856, left maxillary fragment with P4-M2; MOZPV-857, right maxillary fragment with P4-M3; MOZ-PV- 858, right maxillary fragment with P4-M2; MOZ-PV-859, left maxillary fragment with P4-M2; MOZ-PV-860, right maxillary fragment with P4-M2; MOZ-PV-861, left maxillary fragment with P4-M2; MOZ-PV-862, right maxillary fragment with P4-M1; MOZ-PV-863, right mandible fragment with p4-m1; MOZ-PV-864, left mandible fragment with p4; MOZ-PV-921, right mandible fragment with p4- m3 and incomplete incisor; MOZ-PV-922, right mandible fragment with p4-m2 and incomplete incisor; MOZ-PV-923, left mandible fragment with p4-m2; MOZ-PV-928, left mandible fragment with p4-m2; MOZ-PV-929, right mandible fragment with p4-m3; MOZ-PV-930, left mandible fragment with p4-m3; MOZ-PV-931, left mandible fragment with p4- m2; MOZ-PV-932, right mandible fragment with p4-m2 y partial incisor; MOZ-PV-933, right mandible fragment with p4-m2; MOZ-PV-934, left mandible fragment with p4-m2; MOZ-PV-935, right mandible fragment with p4-m1 and partial m2; MOZ-PV-936, left mandible fragment with p4- m2; MOZ-PV-937, right mandible fragment with dp4-m1 and incomplete incisor; MOZ-PV-938, right mandible fragment with erupting p4, m1, and partial incisor; MOZ-PV-939, right mandible fragment with p4 and incomplete incisor; MOZ-PV-940, right mandible fragment with p4 and incomplete incisor; MOZ-PV-941, right mandible fragment with incisor and p4; MOZ-PV-942, right mandible fragment with incomplete p4; MOZ-PV-943, isolated right, little worn m1 or m2 (incomplete); MOZ-PV-944, isolated right, unworn m1 or m2; MOZ-PV-945, isolated left M1 or M2; MOZ-PV-946, isolated left M1 or M2; MOZ-PV-947, isolated left, unworn p4; MOZ-PV-948, isolated right M1 or M2; MOZ-PV-1041, right mandible fragment with m1-m2; MOZ-PV-1045, isolated M1 or M2; MOZ-PV-1070, isolated left lower molar.
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Doryperimys olsacheri n. gen. n. sp.1
Doryperimys olsacheri n. gen. n. sp.1 Kramarz et al. 2015 caviomorph
Holotype: MOZ-PV 955 right mandibular fragment with p4–m3
 Rodentia -
Leucokephalos maior n. gen. n. sp.1
Leucokephalos maior n. gen. n. sp.1 Kramarz et al. 2015 caviomorph
Holotype: MOZ-PV 969, partial left mandible with i, p4–m2
 Primates -
Platyrrhini indet.2 monkey
MOZ-PV-927 and MOZ-PV-107