Playa del Barco: Lujanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino 1888)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus Lund 1840
synonym of Equus caballus
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia patachonica Owen 1838
corrected as Macrauchenia patagonica
Mammalia - Cervidae
Morenelaphus bonaerense
Morenelaphus sp. Carette 1922
Chimento et al. 2019
Morenelaphus lujanensis
Chimento et al. 2019
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus cf. tarijensis
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Neosclerocalyptus sp. Paula Couto 1957
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon reticulatus Owen 1845
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839
Doedicurus clavicaudatus (Owen 1847)
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Scelidotherium leptocephalum Owen 1839
Scelidotherium cf. tarijense Gervais 1855
Catonyx tarijensis Ameghino 1891
Miño-Boilini 2016
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 39.0° South, 61.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° South, 61.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Lujanian
Age range of interval:0.30000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:16440 ± 320 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Age: Lujanian (Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene). A radio- carbonic dating yielded an age of 16.440±320 14 C years BF (Aramayo, 1997).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:198875
Authorizer:P. Mannion, P. Holroyd Enterer:M. Kouvari, K. Magoulick, G. Varnham
Created:2019-01-16 09:39:52 Last modified:2019-01-16 09:39:52
Access level:the public Released:2019-01-16 09:39:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
67741. C. M. Deschamps and R. L. Tomassini. 2016. Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update. In M. Martínez, D. Olivera (eds.), Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio 16(2):202-225 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]

Secondary references:

69879 N.R. Chimento, J.I. Zuccari, J.M. Marchetto and L. Berbach. 2019. Nuevos Restos de Ciervos (Cervidae, Mammalia) Para el Pleistoceno de la Región Pampeana (Argentina): Consideraciones Paleobiogeográficas y Paleoecológicas. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 22(1):67-85 [P. Holroyd/K. Magoulick]
73481 A. R. Miño-Boilini. 2016. Additions to the knowledge of the ground sloth Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Pilosa) in the Pleistocene of Argentina. Paläontologische Gesellschaft 90:173-183 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]