Lago Pueyrredón and Lago Posadas: Santacrucian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sparassodonta
Cladosictis patagonica Ameghino 1887
Marshall 1981 4 specimens
PU 15556, partial humerus; PU 15705, skull and skeleton fragments; PU 15831, fragmentary skull and postcrania; PU 15837, fragmentary skull and postcrania (all Lake Pueyrredón)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Hapalops platycephalus Scott 1903
Bargo et al. 2012
YPM-VPPU 15536, postcrania; 15564, skull and postcrania; both Lago Pueyrredón
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Anisolophus australis (Burmeister 1879)
Cassini et al. 2012
recombined as Proterotherium australe
YPM-VPPU 15711, cranium, femur, tibia (Lago Pueyrredón)
Tetramerorhinus mixtum Ameghino 1894
MacPhee et al. 2021
synonym of Proterotherium australe
YPM PU 15107
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Psilopterus bachmanni (Moreno and Mercerat 1891)
Degrange et al. 2012 1 specimen
YPM-VPPU 15904, almost complete skeleton, Lago Pueyrredón
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 47.5° South, 71.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.2° South, 66.5° 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
Collection method comments: "Few and small collections have been made."
Metadata
Database number:176598
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Zijlstra, G. Varnham
Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:27313
Created:2016-02-17 22:59:03 Last modified:2016-02-17 22:59:03
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-17 22:59:03
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:

58223 M. S. Bargo, N. Toledo, and S. F. Vizcaíno. 2012. Paleobiology of the Santacrucian sloths and anteaters (Xenarthra, Pilosa). In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 216-242 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
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]
58178 F. J. Degrange, J. I. Noriega, and J. I. Areta. 2012. Diversity and paleobiology of the Santacrucian birds. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 138-155 [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]
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]