Huayquerías de San Carlos: Huayquerian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Cerdeño et al. 2023
MCNAM-PV 113
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
MACN 8471 and MACN 8470 - syntypes
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:La Pampa
Coordinates: 36.0° South, 65.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° South, 63.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cerro Azul
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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
Museum repositories:MACN
Metadata
Database number:210572
Authorizer:S. Devincenzi, P. Mannion Enterer:S. Devincenzi, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2020-06-04 09:15:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-06-04 09:15:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

63683. C. Rovereto. 1914. Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire 25:1-247 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

85634 E. Cerdeño , G. I. Schmidt, C. O. Romano and A. M. Forasiepi. 2023. New Miocene–Pliocene specimens of Toxodontidae (Notoungulata) from the Huayquerías of Mendoza, west-central Argentina. Ameghiniana 60(3):259-276 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/P. Mannion]
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]