Uruguaiana: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Glossotherium robustum
(Owen 1842)
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Cirino et al. 2023 | |||||||||
| MCN-PV 1482 (right tibia) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia paradoxa
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Chelonoidis sp.
(Fitzinger 1835)
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Maciel et al. 1996 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Geochelone (Chelonoidis) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° South, 56.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.7° South, 56.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Touro Passo | Member: | Mudstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The fossils were collected probably from the point that Bombim (1976) called “place with larger number of mammals”, in the carbonate level (medium portion of the “Mudstone Member”). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | muddy sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "carbonate" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Bombim (1976) defined the Touro Passo Formation as being fluvial deposits of the flood plain of a homonym stream, presenting a conglomeratic facies (Conglomeratic Member), deposited during a flood, and covered by a muddy sandstone facies (Mudstone Member) with levels of CaCO3, developed in the consequent flood plain. | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: MCN-PV, paleovertebrate collection, Museu de Ciências Naturais of the Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil). | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Touro Passo creek | ||
| Database number: | 148419 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion | Enterer: | C. Suarez-Gomez, G. Varnham, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-20 00:45:28 | Last modified: | 2013-07-19 09:45:28 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2015-07-20 00:45:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47662. | C. S. Scherer, J. Ferigolo, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2007. Contribution to the knowledge of Hemiauchenia paradoxa (Artiodactyla, Camelidae) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 10(1):35-52 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez] |
Secondary references:
| 86610 | M. Cirino, V. G. Pitana, R. Negri, C. Cartelle, J. Ferigolo and A. M. Ribeiro. 2023. New Postcranial Remains of Ground Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora, Mylodontidae) from Southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 25(4):35-55 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 64607 | L. Maciel, A. M. Ribeiro, and F. Sedor. 1996. Consideracoes sobre os quelonios fósseis do Quaternario do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Ameghiniana 33:467-467 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |