Los Toldos Sur, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz: Santacrucian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Branisamyopsis praesigmoides Kramarz 2004
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia
Steiromys duplicatus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Prolagostomus sp. Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2002
8 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eocardiidae
Phanomys mixtus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2006
4 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia
Luantus toldensis n. sp. Kramarz 2006
Kramarz 2006
Holotype plus 6 specimens
Neoreomys australis Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2006
3 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys osbornianus Ameghino 1894
Kramarz 2006
7 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys sp. Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2002
2 specimens; probably a new species, but material is too fragmentary
Perimys erutus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2002
6 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia
Acarechimys minutissimus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
2 specimens, MACN-PV SC2589 MACN-PV SC2590 (see also ref 72683)
Stichomys sp. Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
3 specimens
Spaniomys modestus Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Acaremyidae
Acaremys sp. Ameghino 1887
Kramarz 2004
4 specimens
    = Acaremys murinus Ameghino 1887
Arnal and Vucetich 2015
MACN PV SC2585-2588
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Theosodon sp. Ameghino 1887
Kramarz and Bond 2005
2 specimens, fragmentary
Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
Pachybiotherium illuminatum Goin et al. 2010
Barmak et al. 2021
MACN-PV SC4463
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, 65.2° 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:Santacrucian
Age range of interval:17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pinturas
Stratigraphy comments: Pertains to "Upper Sequence" according to Kramarz and Bellosi, 2005 = typical Santacrucian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
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:59324
Authorizer:D. Croft, P. Mannion, J. Zijlstra, C. Jaramillo Enterer:D. Croft, J. Carrillo, P. Mannion, J. Zijlstra
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-26 08:03:41 Last modified:2020-11-30 10:29:24
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-26 08:03:41
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:

58126 M. Arnal and M. Vucetich. 2015. Revision of the fossil rodent Acaremys Ameghino, 1887 (Hystricognathi, Octodontoidea, Acaremyidae) from the Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina) and the description of a new acaremyid. Historical Biology 27(1):42-59 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
72683 M. Arnal, M. G. Vucetich, D. A. Croft, M. S. Bargo, J. C. Fernícola and S. F. Viscaino. 2017. Systematic revision and evolutionary history of Acarechimys Patterson in Kraglievich 1965 (Rodentia, Caviomorpha, Octodontoidea). Ameghiniana 54(3):307-330 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
73962 G. Barmak, L. Chornogubsky, and L. C. Gaetano. 2021. New insights on Pachybiotherium illuminatum (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Microbiotheriidae) from the early Miocene of the Pinturas Formation (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina). Ameghiniana 58(1) [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
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]