Estancia El Palmar: Pleistocene, Argentina
collected by Tournour & Locker

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon platensis (Ameghino 1888)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Entre Ríos
Coordinates: 31.9° South, 58.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.9° South, 58.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:52 meters
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:El Palmar
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: "Sedimentos referibles al Pleistoceno, probablemente Pleistoceno tardío como lo sugirió Iriondo (1980)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red,yellow sandstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:Tournour & Locker
Collection method comments: Museo Histórico Regional de la Colonia (Sán José, Departamento de Colón, Entre Ríos)
Metadata
Database number:140923
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Carrillo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-19 05:48:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2014-03-19 05:48:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
45736. E. P. Tonni. 1987. Stegomastodon platensis (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) y la antigüedad de la Formación El Palmar en el Departamento Colon, Provincia de Entre Ríos, República de Argentina. Ameghiniana 2(3-4):323-324 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]