Portezuelo Sumich Sur, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz: Burdigalian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys quadrangulatus Kramarz 2006
Kramarz 2006
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys intermedius Kramarz 2002
Kramarz 2002
16 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia
Luantus propheticus Ameghino 1899
Kramarz 2006
11 specimens
Eosteiromys annectens (Ameghino 1901)
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Steiromys duplicatus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Branisamyopsis praesigmoides n. sp. Kramarz 2004
Kramarz 2004
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Acaremyidae
Galileomys eurygnathus n. sp. Kramarz 2004
Kramarz 2004
3 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Prostichomys bowni Kramarz 2001
Kramarz 2004
30+ specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Homunculidae
cf. Soriacebus sp. Fleagle et al. 1987
Novo and Fleagle 2015 1 specimen
MPM-PV 17397, right lower canine
Soriacebus adrianae n. sp. Fleagle 1990
Fleagle 1990
6 specimens. Also ref. 58232: MPM-PV 17401, p2; MPM-PV 17399, P2. 58232: Also ref 71056: MPM-CV1605 and 606
Mammalia - Primates
Carlocebus carmenensis Fleagle 1990
Fleagle 1990
6 specimens; MPM PV 21646
Mammalia - Primates - Pitheciidae
Pitheciinae indet. (Mivart 1865)
Novo and Fleagle 2015 1 specimen
original and current combination Pitheciidae
MPM-PV 17400, incisor
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Tetramerorhinus prosistens (Ameghino 1899)
Kramarz and Bond 2005
5 specimens
Tetramerorhinus fleaglei Kramarz and Bond 2005
Kramarz and Bond 2005
5 specimens
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Nematherium sp. Ameghino 1887
Brandoni et al. 2019
MPM-PV 17423, MPM-PV 17424, and MPM-PV 17425
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Palaeothentes minutus Ameghino 1887
Bown and Fleagle 1993
MACN SC numbers 819, 904, 1028-1032, 1036A, 1036B, 1037, 1041, 1043, 1044, 1095, 3268, 3274, 3275
Propalaeothentes lepidus Bown and Fleagle 1993
Bown and Fleagle 1993
SC-989
Acdestis oweni Ameghino 1887
Bown and Fleagle 1993
MACN SC numbers 874, 896, 972, 988, 989B, 990, 991, 1008, 1011, 1018, 1021, 1026, 1027, 1042, 1195, 1197, 1386, 1486, 3269, 3273
Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotheriidae indet. (Ameghino 1887)
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 1 specimen
MACN Pv SC3648C, ?M2
Microbiotherium tehuelchum Ameghino 1887
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 1 specimen
MACN Pv SC3622, right dentary with m2-3
Microbiotherium cf. gallegosense Sinclair 1906
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 2 specimens
MACN Pv SC3644, dentary m1; SC3645, m1
Pachybiotherium illuminatum n. sp. Goin et al. 2010
Goin et al. 2010 2 specimens
MPM-PV 1805, dentary m3-4, holotype; MPM-PV 1806, M3
Microbiotherium divisum (Ameghino 1902)
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 6 specimens
corrected as Oligobiotherium divisum
MACN Pv SC277, dentary m2-4; SC3619B, dentary m3; SC3627, dentary m3-4; SC3638, dentary m4; SC3641, dentary m3, partial m4; SC3648, M2
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz County:Lago Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 47.0° South, 70.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° South, 64.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian Zone: Pinturan
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pinturas
Stratigraphy comments: Pertains to "Middle Sequence" = "Pinturan" of Kramarz & Bellosi 2005
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MACN
Metadata
Database number:59320
Authorizer:D. Croft, J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion, C. Jaramillo Enterer:D. Croft, J. Carrillo, G. Varnham, J. Zijlstra
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-26 07:57:43 Last modified:2023-10-12 04:27:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-26 07:57:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16881. T. M. Bown and C. N. Larriestra. 1990. Sedimentary paleoenvironments of fossil platyrrhine localities, Miocene Pinturas Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Journal of Human Evolution 19(1-2):87-119 [D. Croft/D. Croft]

Secondary references:

73037 T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle. 1993. Systematics, Biostratigraphy, and Dental Evolution of the Palaeothentidae, Later Oligocene to Early-Middle Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian) Caenolestoid Marsupials of South America. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 29:1-76 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
73350 D. Brandoni, N. M. Novo, J. Tarquini and M. F. Tejedor. 2019. First record of Nematherium (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pinturas Formation (Burdigalian, early Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 96:102234:1-8 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]
58265 L. Chornogubsky and A. G. Kramarz. 2012. Nuevos hallazgos de Microbiotheriidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia) en la Formación Pinturas (Mioceno temprano, Argentina). Ameghiniana 49(4):442-450 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
46037 J. G. Fleagle. 1990. New fossil platyrrhines from the Pinturas Formation, southern Argentina. Journal of Human Evolution 19(1-2):61-85 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo/J. Zijlstra]
58271 F. J. Goin, M. F. Tejedor, M. A. Abello and G. M. Martin. 2010. Un nuevo microbiotérido (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Microbiotheria) de la Formación Pinturas (Mioceno temprano) de la provincia de Santa Cruz. Ameghiniana 47(1):117-122 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
47126 A. Kramarz. 2006. Neoreomys and Scleromys (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, late Early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales n.s 8(1):53-62 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]
16992 A. G. Kramarz. 2002. Roedores chinchilloideos (Hystricognathi) de la Formación Pinturas, Mioceno temprano-medio de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 4(2):167-180 [D. Croft/D. Croft]
16990 A. G. Kramarz. 2004. Octodontoids and erethizontoids (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, Early-Middle Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 41(2):199-216 [D. Croft/D. Croft]
46083 A. G. Kramarz. 2006. Eocardiids (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the Pinturas Formation, Late early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):770-778 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]
16665 A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2005. Los Litopterna (Mammalia) de la Formación Pinturas, Mioceno temprano-medio de Patagonia. Ameghiniana 42(3):611-626 [D. Croft/D. Croft]
58232 N. M. Novo and J. G. Fleagle. 2015. New specimens of platyrrhine primates from Patagonia (Pinturas Formation, Early Miocene). Ameghiniana 52(3):367-372 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
86053 N. M. Novo, M. F. Tejedor, L. R. González-Ruiz, J. G. Fleagle, D. Brandoni and M. Krause. 2021. Primate diversity in the early Miocene Pinturas Formation, southern Patagonia, Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 93(2):e20201218 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]