Mercedes - Quarry: Lujanian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodon reticulatus
Owen 1845
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Glossotherium robustum
(Owen 1842)
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Arzani et al. 2014 | |||||||||
MCA 2014 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Mothé et al. 2017 | |||||||||
MLP 8-16 MACN Pv 14934 MACN Pv 14935 MACN Pv 14936 MACN Pv 14937 MACN Pv 14938 MACN Pv 14944 MACN Pv 14948 MACN Pv 14956 MACN Pv 5200 | ||||||||||
Notiomastodon platensis
(Ameghino 1888)
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Mothé et al. 2017 | |||||||||
MACN Pv 14956 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Dusicyon avus
Burmeister 1866
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Prevosti et al. 2015 | |||||||||
Protocyon troglodytes
(Lund 1938)
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Prevosti 2023 | |||||||||
original and current combination Canis troglodytes | ||||||||||
MLP 89-XI-20-1 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Buenos Aires | County: | Mercedes |
Coordinates: | 34.6° South, 59.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° South, 59.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 36 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Lujanian | Mammal zone: | Lujanian |
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.01200 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lujan | Member: | Guerrero | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Arzani et al. 2014: El fósil afloraba a 2,5 m por debajo de la superficie actual, en sedimentos correspondientes al Miembro Guerrero de la Formación Luján (Fidalgo et al., 1973) (para una discusión sobre la evolución histórica y vigencia de la no- menclatura estratigráfica aplicable a la cuenca del río Luján véase Blasi et al., 2009; Toledo, 2011), asignables al Pleistoceno Tardío (Tonni et al., 2003b). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | MACN |
Collection method comments: Arzani et al. 2014: El espécimen fue recuperado en la temporada 2001–2002, en el marco de las tareas de rescate paleontológico realizadas por personal del MCA (Petrocelli, 2002). |
Metadata
Also known as: | Reserva Arroyo Balta | ||
Database number: | 142142 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, B. Allen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Carrillo, B. Allen, M. Kouvari, G. Varnham |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-04-06 04:41:45 | Last modified: | 2019-07-19 02:13:19 |
Access level: | database members | Released: | 2014-04-06 04:41:45 |
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] |
Secondary references:
69466 | H. Arzani, S. L. Lanzelotti, G. E. Acuña Suárez and N. M. Novo. 2014. Primer Registro de Pelos Fósiles en Glossotherium robustum (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae), Pleistoceno Tardío, Mercedes, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ameghiniana 51(6):585-590 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
73598 | D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] | |
85524 | F. J. Prevosti. 2023. Sistemática de los grandes cánidos (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) fósiles de América del Sur. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 23(1):78-192 [B. Allen/B. Allen] | |
85391 | F. J. Prevosti, M. A. Ramírez, M. Schiaffini, F. Martin, D. E. Udrizar Sauthier, M. Carrera, C. Sillero-Zubiri and U. F. J. Pardiñas. 2015. Extinctions in near time: new radiocarbon dates point to a very recent disappearance of the South American fox Dusicyon avus (Carnivora: Canidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116(3):704-720 [B. Allen/B. Allen] |