Baliza Chica: Ensenadan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon munizi Ameghino 1881
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Buenos Aires County:General Alvarado
Coordinates: 38.3° South, 57.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.3° South, 57.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:9 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Ensenadan Mammal zone: Ensenadan
Age range of interval:1.20000 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vorohué
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy siltstone
Secondary lithology:gray,green sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: The middle levels comprise facies of alluvial events represented by sandy silts with different degree of aquatic reworking.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:MLP
Metadata
Database number:142141
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Carrillo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-06 04:29:54 Last modified:2013-04-05 12:29:54
Access level:database members Released:2014-04-06 04:29:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46123. A. E. Zurita, L. H. Soibelzon, E. Soibelzon, G. M. Gasparini, M. M. Cenizo and H. Arzani. 2010. Accesory protection structures in Glyptodon Owen (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae). Annales de Paleontologie 96(1):1-11 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]