Dique Los Quiroga: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon platensis (Ameghino 1888)
MMB‑009, MMB‑010, MRJP‑937, MRJP‑938
    = Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mothé et al. 2017
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957
MRJP‑936
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837
MRJP‑932, MRJP‑935
Toxodon gracilis Gervais and Ameghino 1880
MMB‑008, MRJP‑933, MRJP‑934
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina paulacoutoi Cartelle and Bohorquez 1985
MRJP‑930
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet. (Burmeister 1879)
MRJP‑931
Panochthus greslebini Castellanos 1941
MMB‑005
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Scelidotheriinae indet. Ameghino 1889
MMB‑006
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Megatherium sp. Cuvier 1796
MMB‑007, LIL‑PZ 1909, LIL‑PZ 1906
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santiago del Estero
Coordinates: 27.6° South, 64.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° South, 64.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Age estimate:19.900 ± 120 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse sandstone
Secondary lithology:fine sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Subcuenca de Alhuampa
Database number:192106
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Carrillo, M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-03-09 05:17:36 Last modified:2020-09-01 07:53:02
Access level:the public Released:2018-03-09 05:17:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64974. N. R. Chimento and F. L. Agnolin. 2011. Mam'iferos del Pleistoceno superior de Santiago del Estero (Argentina) y sus afinidades paleobiogeográficas. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51(6):83-100 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]

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]