Loventué: Huayquerian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Hemihegetotherium torresi Cabrera and Kraglievich 1931
Romano et al. 2023
Cerdeño and Montalvo 2002
GHUNLPam 21680, GHUNLPam 21682
Paedotherium minor Cabrera 1937
Sostillo et al. 2021
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Sostillo et al. 2021
GHUNLPam 152, 9253, 14774, 814/1
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macraucheniinae indet. (Gervais 1855)
Schmidt et al. 2022
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Montalvo et al. 2023
GHUNLPam 14800 left mandible with p4 and broken m1-3.
Montalvo et al. 2023
GHUNLPam 9205 left mandible with i and p4-m3.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Reigechimys plesiodon Verzi et al. 1994
Romano et al. 2023
Romano et al. 2023
Mammalia - Rodentia - Abrocomidae
Protabrocoma antiqua Rovereto 1914
Romano et al. 2023
Mammalia - Rodentia - Octodontidae
Piñero et al. 2021
GHUNLPam 14127, 14773
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Urrutia et al. 2008
Euphractini incertae sedis
Macrochorobates scalabrinii (Moreno and Mercerat 1891)
Mammalia - Cingulata
Romano et al. 2023
Romano et al. 2023
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Miño-Boilini et al. 2023
GHUNLPam 14885
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Montalvo et al. 2020
GHUNLPam 4335
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:La Pampa County:Loventué
Coordinates: 36.8° South, 65.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° South, 63.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Huayquerian
Age range of interval: 8 - 5 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 7.691 to 6.946 Ma (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cerro Azul
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Prevosti et al. 2023: The Cerro Azul Formation localities cover the range between ca. 8 to ca. 5.7 Ma (late Tortonian–Messinian; Late Miocene; Fig. 3; Supplementary Online Information 1, Tab. S8). 7.228 Ma for Loventué (6.946-7.691 Ma).
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
Collection method comments: Esteban, et al. 2000: Todos los ejemplares analizados están depositados en
la Cátedra de Geología Histórica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad Nacional ele La Pampa, Argentina, cuyo acrónimo es GHUNLPam
Metadata
Also known as:La Salada
Database number:204363
Authorizer:P. Mannion, J. Carrillo Enterer:M. Kouvari, G. Varnham, K. Pino, P. Mannion
Modifier:K. Pino
Created:2019-09-06 10:28:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-06 10:28:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
70059. G. I. Esteban, N. L. Nasif, and C. I. Montalvo. 2000. Nuevos registros de Dasypodidae (Xenarthra) del Mioceno tardío de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina. Revista Espanola de Paleontología 16(1):77-87 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]

Secondary references:

73117 E. Cerdeño and C. I. Montalvo. 2002. Los Hegetotheriinae (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata) del Mioceno superior de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 41(1):35-43 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
85272 A. R. Miño-Boilini, D. Brandoni, C. I. Montalvo, R. L. Tomassini, D. Barasoain and A. E. Zurita. 2023. New cranio-dental remains of Nothrotheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora) from the Late Miocene of Central Argentina. Historical Biology 35(8):1435-1443 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]
73341 C. I. Montalvo, A. R. Miño-Boilini, R. Sostillo, E. Cerdeño, M. C. Cardonatto and R. A. Bonini. 2020. The Scelidotheriinae Proscelidodon gracillimus (Xenarthra: Mylodontidae) from the Cerro Azul Formation (late Miocene), Argentina: Ontogenetic variability and taxonomy. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 102754 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
85601 C. I. Montalvo, R. Sostillo, and L. L. Rasia. 2023. New light on the late Middle Miocene–Early Pliocene representatives of Lagostomus (Chinchillidae, Rodentia) from Cerro Azul Formation, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 128(104481) [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]
85280 P. Piñero, D. H. Verzi, A. I. Olivares, C. I. Montalvo, R. L. Tomassini and A. Fernández Villoldo. 2021. Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):1859-1917 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/P. Mannion]
85650 C. O. Romano, R. Bonini, S. Hemming, M. Cenizo, U. F. J. Pardiñas and F. J. Prevosti. 2023. Advances in the understanding of Neogene mammalian fauna in the Pampean region (central Argentina) through revising “biozone” hypotheses based on new dates and biochronological analyses. Ameghiniana 60(5):465-491 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]
86911 G. I. Schmidt, C. I. Montalvo, E. Cerdeño, R. Sostillo, R. L. Tomassini and R. A. Bonini. 2022. Updated data on Litopterna from the Huayquerian Stage/Age (Late Miocene-Early Pliocene) of central-east Argentina. Comptes Rendus Palevol 21(32):721-743 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]
84590 R. Sostillo, C. I. Montalvo, E. Cerdeño, G. I. Schmidt, A. Folguera and M. C. Cardonatto. 2021. Updated knowledge on the Notoungulata (Mammalia) from the late Miocene Cerro Azul Formation, La Pampa Province, Argentina. Historical Biology An International Journal of Paleobiology 33(8):1247-1265 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]
70799 J. J. Urrutia, C. I. Montalvo, and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 2008. Dasypodidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata) de la Formación Cerro Azul (Mioceno tardío) de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45(2):289-302 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]