Campo Viñoles: Late Pleistocene, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon waringi (Holland 1920)
(2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:Cerro Largo
Coordinates: 32.4° South, 54.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:106 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene Mammal zone:  Lujanian
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dolores
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,coarse sandstone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Lithology description: whitish-gray medium to coarse sandstone with basal conglomerate
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Vertebrate Palaeontology Collection of Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Metadata
Database number:139660
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Carrillo
Modifier:J. Carrillo Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-15 08:37:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2014-02-15 08:37:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
44913. M. T. Alberdi, J. L. Prado, D. Perea and M. Ubilla. 2007. Stegomastodon waringi (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Late Pleistocene of northeastern Uruguay. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 243(2):179-189 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]