Cerro de los Monos, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz: Burdigalian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotherium divisum (Ameghino 1902)
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 1 specimen
corrected as Oligobiotherium divisum
MACN Pv SC550, dentary with m1 and partial m2
Microbiotherium tehuelchum Ameghino 1887
Chornogubsky and Kramarz 2012 1 specimen
MACN Pv SC1172, m2
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Palaeothentes minutus Ameghino 1887
Bown and Fleagle 1993
MACN SC numbers 547, 548, 623
Acdestis oweni Ameghino 1887
Bown and Fleagle 1993
MACN SC numbers 558, 578, 585,603
Acdestis lemairei Bown and Fleagle 1993
Bown and Fleagle 1993
MACN SC- 685
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Tetramerorhinus fleaglei Kramarz and Bond 2005
Kramarz and Bond 2005
18 specimens
Tetramerorhinus prosistens (Ameghino 1899)
Kramarz and Bond 2005
1 specimen
Picturotherium migueli Kramarz and Bond 2005
Kramarz and Bond 2005
4 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys intermedius Kramarz 2002
Kramarz 2002
34 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys quadrangulatus Kramarz 2006
Kramarz 2006
3 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Branisamyopsis praesigmoides Kramarz 2004
Kramarz 2004
5 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia
Eosteiromys cf. homogenidens Ameghino 1902
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Eosteiromys annectens (Ameghino 1901)
Kramarz 2004
2 specimens
Steiromys principalis Ameghino 1901
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Luantus propheticus Ameghino 1899
Kramarz 2006
45 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Acaremyidae
Galileomys eurygnathus Kramarz 2004
Kramarz 2004
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Prostichomys bowni Kramarz 2001
Kramarz 2004
24 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Homunculidae
Soriacebus adrianae Fleagle 1990
Fleagle 1990
2 specimens
Mammalia - Primates
Carlocebus carmenensis Fleagle 1990
Fleagle 1990
10 specimens
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Nematherium sp. Ameghino 1887
Brandoni et al. 2019
MPM-PV 17420, MPM-PV 17421
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz County:Lago Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 47.0° South, 70.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° South, 65.0° 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 - 15.98000 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:59321
Authorizer:D. Croft, P. Mannion, J. Zijlstra, C. Jaramillo Enterer:D. Croft, G. Varnham, J. Zijlstra, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-26 07:59:15 Last modified:2020-11-30 10:28:08
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-26 07:59:15
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]
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]