Estancia La Costa Fossiliferous Level 1: Santacrucian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae
Prozaedyus exilis Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Cingulata - Propalaehoplophoridae
Propalaehoplophorus australis (Moreno 1882)
Tauber 1997
original and current combination Hoplophorus australis
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Proeutatus lagena (Ameghino 1887)
Tauber 1997
original and current combination Eutatus lagena
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Eucholoeops sp. Amegino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Nematherium sp. Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia
Acarechimys minutissimus Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys cf. erutus Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Perimys impactus Ameghino 1894
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia
Neoreomys australis Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Steiromys detentus Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Steiromys detentus?
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Licaphrium floweri Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Diadiaphorus robustus Ameghino 1894
Tauber 1997
"Proterotherium" cavum Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
El género "Proterotherium" es citado entre comillas debido a que se considera diferente al género creado por Ameghino (1883) sobre un holotipo procedente de [as barrancas próximas a la ciudad de Paraná ("Mesopotamiense"), cuya especie tipo es P. cervioides (véase Bianchini y Bianchini 1971; Soria, 1981; De Barrio et al., 1984; Tauber, 1994).
Thoatherium minusculum Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Theosodon lallemanti Mercerat 1891
Tauber 1997
synonym of Theosodon lydekkeri
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium praerutilum Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Nesodon sp. Owen 1846
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Palaeothentes minutus Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotherium patagonicum Ameghino 1887
Tauber 1997
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Leptodactylidae
"Leptodactylidae" indet. Stirton 1953
1 specimen
CORD-PZ 1230, left maxilla, left frontoparietal and presacral vertebrae
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 51.2° South, 69.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.8° South, 63.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Santacrucian
Age range of interval:17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Santa Cruz
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:176601
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Zijlstra, M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:176581
Created:2016-02-17 23:29:14 Last modified:2020-06-17 04:25:22
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-17 23:29:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58177. J. C. Fernicola and A. Albino. 2012. Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina: paleoenvironmental and paleobiological considerations. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 129-137 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]

Secondary references:

70785 A. A. Tauber. 1997. Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia. Ameghiniana 34(4):517-529 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
72751 A. A. Tauber. 1999. Los vertebrados de la Formacion Santa Cruz (Mioceno inferior-medio) en el extremo sureste de la Patagonia y su significado paleoecológico. Revista Espagnola de Paleontologia 14(2):173-182 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]