Sopas Creek: Lujanian, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Manzuetti et al. 2020
FC-DPV 875, skull and mandible
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Cavia sp. Pallas 1766
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
FC–DPV 777
Dusicyon avus Burmeister 1866
(20 measurements)
(8 measurements)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)
Manzuetti et al. 2022
MGT 1150, skull and mandible
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cervidae
Antifer ultra (Ameghino 1888)
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Camelidae
Lama sp. Cuvier 1800
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli 1921
Bond et al. 2001
FC-DPV-776
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Propraopus sp. Ameghino 1881
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Perea 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:Salto
Coordinates: 31.3° South, 57.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:140 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Lujanian Mammal zone:  Lujanian
Age range of interval: 0.4 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 43.5 ± 3.6 to 30.6 ± 5.4 Ka (14C)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sopas
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Secondary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: conglomerates, conglomerate sandstones, siltstones and sandy siltstones
Environment:fluvial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Geology comments: was deposited predominantly under fluvial conditions but also shows paleosols in some places
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: MACNU
Metadata
Also known as:Arroyo Sopas; Paso Muñoz bridge
Database number:140159
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Carrillo, P. Mannion, G. Varnham, K. Magoulick
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-04 08:53:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-04 08:53:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
45265. F. J. Prevosti, M. Ubilla, and D. Perea. 2009. Large extinct canids from the Pleistocene of Uruguay: systematic, biogeographic and paleoecological remarks. Historical Biology 21(1-2):79-89 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]

Secondary references:

73159 M. Bond, D. Perea, M. Ubilla and M. Tauber. 2001. Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli, 1921, the only surviving Proterotheriidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) into the South American Pleistocene. Palaeovertebrata 30(1-2):37-50 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
81937 A. Manzuetti, W. Jones, M. Ubilla and D. Perea. 2022. Nuevo registro de Puma concolor Linnaeus, 1771 (Carnivora, Felidae) para el Pleistoceno tardío de Uruguay y su importancia paleoecológica. Andean Geology 49(3):445-462 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]
73349 A. Manzuetti, M. Ubilla, D. Perea, R. I. Vezzosi, A. Rinderknecht, M. Ghizzoni, and W. Jones. 2020. The large American opossum Didelphis (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay, and paleoecological remarks. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 98:102437:1-8 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]
73546 A. Manzuetti, M. Ubilla, A. Rinderknecht and D. Perea. 2020. The pampas fox Lycalopex gymnocercus (Fischer, 1814) (Carnivora, Canidae) in the late Pleistocene of northern Uruguay. Ameghiniana [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
69876 D. Perea. 2007. Nothrotherium cf. N. maquinense (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) en la Formación Sopas (Pleistoceno tardío de Uruguay). Revista SUG 14:5-9 [P. Holroyd/K. Magoulick/K. Magoulick]
73160 M. Ubilla, D. Perea, A. Rinderknecht and A. Corona. 2009. Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotations. Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul 217-230 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]