San Jose (Rio Carcaraña, between San Jose de la Esquina and Casilda): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Chelonoidis sp. (Fitzinger 1835)
original and current combination Geochelone (Chelonoidis)
giant size
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Protocyon sp. Giebel 1855
Prevosti 2023
MACN-Pv 11606
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mothé et al. 2017
MLP-47-IV-9-2
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Fé
Coordinates: 32.9° South, 61.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° South, 61.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
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:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MACN
Metadata
Also known as:Carcaraña river
Database number:189523
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, P. Mannion, B. Allen Enterer:E. Vlachos, M. Kouvari, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2017-10-25 16:02:29 Last modified:2020-09-01 00:23:32
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-25 16:02:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42415. F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]