Cañadón de Las Vacas: Santacrucian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sparassodonta
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Sipalocyon gracilis
Ameghino 1887
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Marshall 1981 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| AMNH 9238, dentary m1-3 | ||||||||||
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Cladosictis patagonica
Ameghino 1887
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Marshall 1981 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| AMNH 9134, partial skull, mandible, vertebrae and fragments; AMNH 9548, right dentary p2-m4, left dentary p1-m4; AMNH 9574 = USNM 5936, right dentary p1-m3, left dentary p1-m1, m4 | ||||||||||
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Prothylacynus patagonicus
Ameghino 1891
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Marshall 1979 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MACN 14453, partial skull | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Interatheriidae
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Interatherium robustum
Ameghino 1891
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Cassini et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| synonym of Interatherium extensus | ||||||||||
| AMNH 15194, cranium and mandible | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
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Pachyrukhos sp.
Ameghino 1885
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Vizcaíno et al. 2021 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Homalodotheriidae
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Homalodotherium sp.
Huxley 1870
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MacPhee et al. 2021 | |||||||||
| MPN PV 17490 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Adinotherium sp.
Ameghino 1887
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Cassini et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| AMNH 9141, mandible | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° South, 69.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.2° South, 63.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: | Santa Cruz |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176569 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra, G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 27313 | ||
| Created: | 2016-02-17 21:14:59 | Last modified: | 2016-02-17 21:14:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-17 21:14:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58167. | S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, and M. S. Bargo. 2012. Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 1-22 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |
Secondary references:
| 58224 | G. H. Cassini, E. Cerdeño, A. L. Villafañe and N. A. Muñoz. 2012. Paleobiology of Santacrucian native ungulates (Meridiungulata: Astrapotheria, Litoptera and Notoungulata). In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 243-286 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 81723 | R. D. E. MacPhee, S. Hernández del Pino, A. Kramarz, A. M. Forasiepi, M. Bond and R. B. Sulser. 2021. Cranial morphology and phylogenetic relationships of Trigonostylops wortmani, an Eocene South American native ungulate. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 449(1):1-183 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 58324 | L. G. Marshall. 1979. Review of the Prothylacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials. Fieldiana Geology 3:1-50 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 58306 | L. G. Marshall. 1981. Review of the Hathlyacyninae, an extinct subfamily of South American "dog-like" marsupials. Fieldiana Geology 7:1-120 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 58202 | F. J. Prevosti, A. M. Forasiepi, M. D. Ercoli and G. F. Turazzini. 2012. Paleoecology of the mammalian carnivores (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene). In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 173-193 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 86858 | S. F. Vizcaíno, M. S. Bargo, R. F. Kay and M. S. Raigemborn. 2021. The record of the typothere Pachyrukhos (Mammalia, Notoungulata) and the Chinchillid Prolagostomus (Mammalia, Rodentia) in the Santa Cruz Formation (early–middle Miocene) south to the Río Coyle, Patagonia, Argentina. . Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 21(2):1-15 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |