Touro Passo creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia patachonica Owen 1838
corrected as Macrauchenia patagonica
MCN-PV 2160
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857
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]