Arroyo Tapalque: Lujanian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Mothé et al. 2017 | |||||||||
| MLP-44-XII-29-1 MACN Pv 5724 | ||||||||||
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Notiomastodon platensis
(Ameghino 1888)
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Mothé et al. 2017 | |||||||||
| MACN Pv 5716 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Toxodon platensis
Owen 1837
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus neogeus
(Lund 1840)
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| synonym of Equus caballus | ||||||||||
| curvidens | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Panameriungulata
- Macraucheniidae
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Macrauchenia patachonica
Owen 1838
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| corrected as Macrauchenia patagonica | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Lama sp.
Cuvier 1800
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Plaxhaplus canaliculatus
Ameghino 1884
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Glyptodon reticulatus
Owen 1845
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Doedicurus sp.
Burmeister 1874
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Panochthus tuberculatus
(Owen 1845)
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Glossotherium sp.
Owen 1840
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= Glossotherium robustum
Owen 1842
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Varela and Fariña 2016 | |||||||||
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Lestodon armatus
Gervais 1855
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Megatherium americanum
Cuvier 1796
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Buenos Aires |
| Coordinates: | 36.8° South, 59.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° South, 59.9° 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 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 71279 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Carrillo, P. Mannion | Enterer: | K. Sears, K. Pino, M. Kouvari |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | ||
| Created: | 1999-02-09 16:19:01 | Last modified: | 2020-08-28 07:18:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-09 16:19:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24011. | M.S. Bargo, A.N. Menegaz, J.L. Prado, M.C. Salemme, C.P. Tambussi and E.P. Tonni. 1986. Mamiferos y Biostratigrafia. Una Nueva Fauna Loval de la Unidad Mamifero Lujanense (Pleistoceno Tardio) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ameghiniana 23(3-4):229-232 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 73598 | D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] | |
| 85618 | L. Varela and R. A. Fariña. 2016. Co-occurrence of mylodontid sloths and insights on their potential distributions during the late Pleistocene. Quaternary Research 85(1):66-74 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino] |