Piedra Museo Upper Unit 2: Holocene, Argentina
collected 1990 - 1999
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Rheiformes
- Rheidae
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Lama guanicoe
Müller 1776
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 47.9° South, 67.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.0117 - 0 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: earlier papers defined six units, but here the latter five are collapsed into unit 2; this collection combines all unit 2 material from above a charcoal later at 185 cm the two C14 dates on bone at the 172 and 173 cm levels are 9230 +/- 105 and 9710 +/- 105 ybp, calibrated as 8290-8560 and 8840-9280 ybp | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic sandy claystone |
| Lithology description: pedogenic "argile sableuse" | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: rock shelter | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | Collection dates: | 1990 - 1999 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 73843 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-07-03 10:14:12 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-03 10:14:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24752. | F. V. Ramirez Rozzi, F. d'Errico, and M. A. Zarate. 2000. Le site paléo-indien de Piedra Museo (Patagonie). Sa contribution au débat sur le premier peuplement du continent amérlcaln. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Series IIA Earth and Planetary Science 331(4):311-318 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/O. Alfaro] |