Comallo: Langhian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Cladosictis patagonica Ameghino 1887
Echarri et al. 2021
MAPBAR-5150, partial cranium with dentition; MAPBAR-7798, fragment of right maxilla with M2–M3
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
Protypotherium colloncurensis Vera et al. 2017
Protypotherium endiadys (Roth 1898)
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Hemihegetotherium tantillum Vera 2019
Vera 2019
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Rio Negro
Coordinates: 41.1° South, 70.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° South, 65.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Langhian Mammal zone:  Colloncuran
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Collón Cura
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: A recent 40Ar/39Ar analysis in amphibole crystals collected from fresh pumice clasts revealed an age of 14.86 ± 0.13 Ma for the middle section of the Collón Curá Formation in the Gastre Basin (Bilmes et al. 2013), placing this unit and its fauna in the middle Miocene (Langhian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous sandstone
Lithology description: In general terms, the Collón Curá Formation is character- ized by tuff, sandstone, and ignimbrite, bearing fossil mam- mals below and above the Pilcaniyeu Ignimbrite Member (Vucetich et al. 1993; Cucchi et al. 1998; Escosteguy et al. 2013).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Some specimens are new and some are un-published specimens of Roth’s (1899) old collection curated at Museo de La Plata.
Metadata
Database number:198569
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari, G. Varnham
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:2018-12-18 03:39:37 Last modified:2022-05-19 04:44:32
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-18 03:39:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67593. B. Vera, M. Reguero, and L. González-Ruiz. 2017. The Interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá Formation in Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(4):845-863 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]

Secondary references:

81713 S. Echarri, K. S. Ulloa-Guaiquin, G. Aguirrezabala and A. M. Forasiepi. 2021. Cladosictis patagonica (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Collón Cura Formation (Middle Miocene), Río Negro, Argentina. Ameghiniana 58(6):485-491 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
69350 B. Vera. 2019. A new species and the record of Hemihegetotherium (Notoungulata, T Hegetotheriidae) in the Middle to Late Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 93:23-35 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]