Villavil (Chiquimil - El Jarillal sup): Huayquerian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Tremacyllus incipiens Rovereto 1914
Armella et al. 2022
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Vassallia maxima Castellanos 1946
Vassallia minuta Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Macrochorobates scalabrinii (Moreno and Mercerat 1891)
Chorobates scalabrinii
Chasicotatus peiranoi Esteban and Nasif 1996
Chasicotatus ameghinoi Scillato-Yané 1977
cf. Paraeuphractus sp. Scillato-Yané 1980
Paraeuphractus prominens Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Vetelia sp. Ameghino 1891
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Orthomyctera sp. Ameghino 1889
cf. Dolichotis sp. Desmarest 1820
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Rodentia
Octodontoidea informal cf. Sciamys
Octodontoidea informal cf. Acarechimys
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenomyidae
Chasicomys sp. Pascual 1967
Mammalia - Rodentia - Octodontidae
Phtoramys sp. Ameghino 1887
Mammalia - Rodentia - Abrocomidae
Abrocoma cf. boliviensis
Mammalia - Rodentia
Neophanomys sp. Rovereto 1914
Neophanomys biplicatus Rovereto 1914
Mammalia - Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Tetrastylus sp. Ameghino 1886
Tetrastylus laevigatus Ameghino 1886
Tetrastylus intermedius Rovereto 1914
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Catamarca County:Belén
Coordinates: 27.1° South, 66.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° South, 64.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Huayquerian
Age range of interval:7.90000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:8 to 7.14 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chiquimil Member:El Jarillal
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: In Figure 3 they sum up the chronobiostratigraphy of locality Puerta de Corral Quemade and locality Villavil. Information about this locality (age, geology etc) mostly come from this figure.
*dataciones absolutas de Latorre et al. (1997) (Date based on study on d13C and d18O.)** datación ab- soluta de Sasso (1997); las edades de la columna Ma son asignadas de acuerdo a la tasa de sedimentación
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: The environment proposed for El Jarillal Member (Chiquimil Formation) and lower levels of the Andalhuala Formations is savanna- like, with small forests and a wet season with a progressive aridification toward the top of the Andalhuala Formation.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:198547
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari, G. Varnham
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2018-12-17 09:04:09 Last modified:2019-09-11 10:59:56
Access level:the public Released:2018-12-17 09:04:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
67587. G. Esteban, N. Nasif, and S. M. Georgieff. 2014. Cronobioestratigrafía del Mioceno tardío – Plioceno temprano, Puerta de Corral Quemado y Villavil, provincia de Catamarca, Argentina. Acta geológica lilloana 26(2):165-192 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]

Secondary references:

86746 M. A. Armella, M. D. Ercoli, R. A. Bonini and D. A. García-López. 2022. Detecting morphological gaps in tooth outlines of a Pachyrukhinae (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata) lineage: systematic and palaeobiogeographical significance of the records from Northwestern Argentina. Comptes Rendus Palevol 21(16):323-348 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]