Also known as Pampeano
Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (34.6° S, 59.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 59.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• JA: said by Moreno and Mercerat to be "Miocene" but certainly Late Pleistocene or perhaps early Holocene based on assignment of Glossotherium robustum specimen to the Upper "Pampean" by Bargo et al. 2000
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: F. P. Moreno and A. Mercerat. 1891. Catálogo de los pájaros fósiles de la República Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata [Catalogue of the fossil birds from the Argentine Republic housed in the Museo de La Plata]. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 1:7-71 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88836: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.04.2009, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Carrano and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cervus latus n. sp.1
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Aves | |
Rhea pampeana n. sp.
Rhea pampeana n. sp. Moreno and Mercerat 1891 rhea |