Casil Quarry: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Propaopus sp.
Ozotocerus cf. bezoarticus
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Phorusrhacidae indet. (Ameghino 1889)
1 specimen
original and current combination Phororhacosidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon waringi (Holland 1920)
synonym of Notiomastodon platensis
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon cf. platensis Owen 1837
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia patachonica Owen 1838
corrected as Macrauchenia patagonica
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Myocastor sp. Kerr 1782
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Doedicurus sp. Burmeister 1874
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866
Mammalia - Cingulata
Neuryurus sp. Ameghino 1889
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Megatheriinae indet. Gill 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:Montevideo
Coordinates: 34.4° South, 56.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° South, 56.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dolores
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: siltstones, pelites, sandy to gravely pelites, and sandstones with argillaceous matrix
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: mud flow?
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:120884
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-11-23 02:35:19 Last modified:2020-11-30 12:13:00
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-23 02:35:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38600. H. Alvargenga, W. Jones, and A. Riderknecht. 2010. The youngest record of phorusrhacid birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256(2):229-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]