Río Dulce: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Siluriformes
Siluriformes indet.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Reptilia - Boidae
Epicrates sp. Wagler 1830
Albino and Gaudioso 2018
MPAT 252, fragment of a vertebral column. The material includes 14 articulated and fragmentary vertebrae in a block, and two incomplete vertebrae in another block. Both blocks were originally part of the same vertebral column section. Some fragmentary ribs remain articulate to the vertebrae. The vertebral section corresponds to a portion of the mid-trunk region
Reptilia
Tupinambis sp. Daudin 1802
Albino and Gaudioso 2018
MPAT 251, distal fragment of a left hemimandible.
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon platensis (Ameghino 1888)
recombined as Notiomastodon platensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus maximus (Desmarest 1817)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctotherium sp. Bravard 1857
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842
Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassu sp. Fischer 1814
Catagonus sp. Ameghino 1904
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia paradoxa Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Ortiz et al. 2019
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia sp. Owen 1838
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli 1921
Gaudioso et al. 2017
MPAT 073
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus (Amerhippus) sp. (Hoffstetter 1950)
invalid subgroup of Equus
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina paulacoutoi Cartelle and Bohorquez 1985
Pampatherium sp. Ameghino 1875
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus tuberculatus (Owen 1845)
Doedicurus clavicaudatus (Owen 1847)
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Neosclerocalyptus sp. Paula Couto 1957
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Tolypeutes sp. Illiger 1811
Chaetophractus villosus Desmarest 1804
Eutatus sp. Gervais 1867
Propraopus sp. Ameghino 1881
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Megatherium americanum Cuvier 1796
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Scelidotheriinae indet. Ameghino 1889
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santiago del Estero
Coordinates: 27.5° South, 64.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.5° South, 64.8° 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
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Termas de Rio Hondo
Database number:191153
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, G. Benevento, P. Mannion Enterer:E. Vlachos, M. Kouvari, G. Benevento, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2018-01-11 09:09:00 Last modified:2020-07-24 11:07:07
Access level:the public Released:2018-01-11 09:09:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64453. P. J. Gaudioso, G. M. Gasparini, and R. M. Barquez. 2016. Paleofauna del Pleistoceno de Termas de Rio Hondo, Santiago del Estero, Argentina. XXX Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados. Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 53(6 (suppl.)):54 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

70762 A. Albino and P. J. Gaudioso. 2018. Extant squamates in the Pleistocene of northwestern Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 21(1):63-70 [G. Benevento/G. Benevento]
73168 P. J. Gaudioso, G. M. Gasparini, F. Herbst and R. M. Barquez. 2017. First record of the Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli, 1921 (Mammalia, Litopterna) in the Pleistocene of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 57(3):23-29 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
74913 P. E. Ortiz, D. A. Garcia-Lopez, M. C. Madozzo Jaen and G. I. Esteban. 2019. Síntesis actualizada del registro paleontológico pleistoceno en el Noroeste argentino. Mioceno al Pleistoceno del centro y norte de Argentina 574-605 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]