Barrancas del Río Chico: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Jujuy
Coordinates: 24.2° South, 65.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° South, 64.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1349 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene Mammal zone:  Huayquerian
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 0.774 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Piquete
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,brown,red,yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology:red claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: CNS-V
Metadata
Also known as:San Salvador de Jujuy
Database number:140638
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Carrillo
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-13 12:07:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2014-03-13 12:07:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
45575. J. E. Arias, R. Alonso, and S. Malanca. 1978. Un gliptodontoideo de la Formación Piquete (Grupo Orán), Provincia de Jujuy, República Argentina. Revista del Instituto de Ciencias Geológicas 3:175-188 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]