Estancia Criado: Colloncuran, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Pliolagostomus friasensis Vucetich 1984
Vucetich 1984
MLP 74-II-1-29a & 31, 35, 36
Prolagostomus sp. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dasyproctidae
Dasyproctidae indet. Gray 1825
Vucetich 1984
MLP 73-VII-8-7
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eocardiidae
Megastus sp. Roth 1898
Mammalia - Rodentia
Stichomys sp. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Theosodon sp. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium sp. Ameghino 1882
Epipatriarchus sp. Ameghino 1904
synonym of Protypotherium
Protypotherium colloncurensis Vera et al. 2017
Vera et al. 2017
Protypotherium endiadys (Roth 1898)
Vera et al. 2017
synonym of Protypotherium praerutilum
Interatherium sp. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Hegetotherium sp. Ameghino 1887
Pachyrukhos sp. Ameghino 1885
Mammalia - Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
Stenotatus sp. Ameghino 1891
Prozaedius sp. Ameghino 1891
corrected as Prozaedyus
Proeutatus sp. Ameghino 1891
Mammalia - Cingulata - Peltephilidae
Peltephilidae indet. Ameghino 1894
González-Ruiz et al. 2013
MLP 74-II-1-23
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone indet. Fitzinger 1835
    = Chelonoidis cf. gringorum Simpson 1942
de Broin and de la Fuente 1993
    = Chelonoidis sp. Fitzinger 1835
de la Fuente et al. 2018
original and current combination Geochelone (Chelonoidis)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Río Negro
Coordinates: 41.0° South, 70.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.6° South, 66.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1036 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Colloncuran
Age range of interval:15.40000 - 13.70000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:15 Ma (K-Ar)15.4 to 14 Ma (K-Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Collón Cura Member:Tobaceo Las Bayas
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:volcaniclastic tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Tobas cineríticas de composición dacítica, de depositación subaerea y estratificación poco definida.
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:MLP
Taxonomic list comments:Vera et al 2017: Some specimens are new and some are un-published specimens of Roth’s (1899) old collection curated at Museo de La Plata.
Metadata
Also known as:Pilcaniyeu viejo
Database number:140691
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Carrillo, E. Vlachos, M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-14 11:15:44 Last modified:2018-12-18 03:28:33
Access level:database members Released:2014-03-14 11:15:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45585. P. Bondesio, J. Rabassa, R. Pascual, M. G. Vucetich, and G. J. Scillato-Yané. 1980. La formación Collon-Cura de Pilcaniyeu Viejo y sus alrededores (Río Negro, República Argentina) su antiguedad y las condiciones ambientales según su distribución su litogenesis y sus vertebrados. Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología 3:85-99 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]

Secondary references:

42415 F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]
64606 M. S. de la Fuente, G. G. Zacarias, and E. Vlachos. 2018. A review of the fossil record of the South American turtles of the clade Pan-Testudinoidea. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/S. Bruning]
70592 L. R. González-Ruiz, F. Gois, M. R. Ciancio and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 2013. Los Peltephilidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) de la Formación Collón Curá (Colloncurense, Mioceno médio), Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 16(2):319-330 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
67593 B. Vera, M. Reguero, and L. González-Ruiz. 2017. The Interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá Formation in Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(4):845-863 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
71564 M. G. Vucetich. 1984. Los roedores de la Edad Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Patagonia. Revista del Museo de la Plata (Nuova serie) Paleontologia 50(8):47-126 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]