Touro Passo creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Panameriungulata
- Macraucheniidae
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Macrauchenia patachonica
Owen 1838
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corrected as Macrauchenia patagonica | ||||||||||
MCN-PV 2160 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Trachemys sp.
Agassiz 1857
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Maciel et al. 1996 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Rio Grande do Sul | County: | Uruguaiana |
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 |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Touro Passo | Member: | Muddy | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The material from Touro Passo Creek does not include details about the locality and level of collection, but according to the preservation, it is possible to infer that it comes from the carbonatic level (middle portion of muddy member) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | wavy/flaser/lenticular bedding mudstone |
Secondary lithology: | "carbonate" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Bombin (1976) defined the Touro Passo Formation, composed of a conglomeratic member, characterized by conglomerates that could represent channel deposits, overlapped by a muddy member, characterized by mudstone with sandy lenses and CaCO3 levels (rhizoconcretions), deposited in the floodplain. | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
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
Database number: | 151520 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | C. Suarez-Gomez, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-10-06 07:39:41 | Last modified: | 2013-10-05 15:39:41 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2015-10-06 07:39:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
47945. | C. S. Scherer, V. G. Pitana, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2009. Proterotheriidae and Macraucheniidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3):231-246 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez/C. Suarez-Gomez] |
Secondary references:
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] |