Right side of the Candelaria Creek: Huayquerian, Argentina
collected 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Reptilia - Theropoda
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
(Contreras and Cerdeño 2010; Bracco et al. 2011).
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae
Cardiatherium calingastaense n. sp. Cerdeño et al. 2019
Holotype : INGEO-PV 87
Mammalia - Panameriungulata
Litopterna indet. Ameghino 1889
(Contreras and Cerdeño 2010; Bracco et al. 2011).
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Hemihegetotherium achataleptum Rovereto 1914
studied in detail by Cerdeño and Contreras 2000
Mammalia - Xenarthra
Xenarthra indet. (Cope 1889)
(Contreras and Cerdeño 2010; Bracco et al. 2011).
unclassified
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Palymomorpha indet.
Insecta
Insecta indet. Linnaeus 1758
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:San Juan
Coordinates: 31.1° South, 69.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° South, 67.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Huayquerian
Age range of interval: 7.9 - 4.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Las Floras
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: These localities are Puchuzum (Calingasta Valley), whose faunal assemblage is assigned to the Huayquerian SALMA (late Tortonian–Messinian; see Deschamps et al. 2013, for further details in bio- and chronostratigraphic equivalences),
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,red or brown sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: the bony remains recorded in this locality, which come from the middle of the exposed section, were assigned to the latest Miocene. This mid-section is characterized by brown-reddish to greyish psammo-pelitic deposits, reddish silty to silty-sandy beds, with some carbonaceous and con- glomeratic levels, and with cut and fill structures. Three man- tiform interbeddings of bentonitic clay, 3 to 10 m thick, are distinguished by their yellowish coloration. These bentonitic packages clearly correspond to sedimentary events that orig- inated in lakes, evidenced by the recorded fossils: bivalves, gastropods, insects, and fish
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: The general palaeoenvironment of the mid-section of
Puchuzum is interpreted as a fluvial system with great devel-opment of flood plains and rivers, more or less channelled and strongly sinuous. The lacustrine interbeddings correspond to increasing and decreasing events of the lacustrine basin, in-fluenced by tectonic and hydrologic activity. A similar situa-tion has been interpreted for the Las Flores Formation in the Iglesia Basin/
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2006
Metadata
Also known as:Puchuzum
Database number:198513
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2018-12-17 04:18:50 Last modified:2019-01-14 10:33:40
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-17 04:18:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
67584. E. Cerdeño, M. E. Pérez, C. M. Deschamps and V. H. Contreras. 2019. A new capybara from the late Miocene of San Juan Province, Argentina, and its phylogenetic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(XX) [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]