Casil Quarry: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Doedicurus sp. Burmeister 1874
Mammalia - Cingulata
unclassified
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon waringi (Holland 1920)
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Myocastor sp. Kerr 1782
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
Mammalia - Camelidae
unclassified
Reptilia
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:Montevideo
Coordinates: 34.4° South, 56.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Chibanian - Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.774 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dolores
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: siltstones, pelites, sandy to gravely pelites, and sandstones with argillaceous matrix
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: mud flow?
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:120884
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-11-23 02:35:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-11-23 02:35:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
38600. H. Alvargenga, W. Jones, and A. Riderknecht. 2010. The youngest record of phorusrhacid birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256(2):229-234 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]