Baliza Chica: Ensenadan, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodon munizi
Ameghino 1881
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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] |