PBDB Collection

Quebrada Fiera (north side of the ravine): Deseadan, Argentina
collected 1970; 2006

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae

	cf. Andrewsornis sp. Patterson 1941
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae

	Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae

	Dasypodidae indet. (Gray 1821)
	= Meteutatus aff. lagenaformis Ameghino 1897	Carlini et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Chlamyphoridae

	? Prozaedyus aff. impressus	Carlini et al. 2009

	Stenotatus aff. ornatus	Carlini et al. 2009
Mammalia - Megalonychidae

	? Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855
Mammalia - Panameriungulata

	Litopterna indet. Ameghino 1889
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

	Coniopternium andinum Ameghino 1894	Schmidt et al. 2019
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae

	cf. Lambdaconus suinus Ameghino 1897	Schmidt et al. 2019
Mammalia - Rodentia - Acaremyidae

	Acaremyidae indet. (Wood 1949)
Mammalia - Pyrotheridae

	Pyrotherium sp. Ameghino 1888
	= Pyrotherium romeroi	Cerdeño and Vera 2017
	MCNAM-PV 4073, 4377, 3863, 3986, 4325, 4639, 4907, 3965, 4334, 4128, 3886, 4293
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notohippidae

	Notohippidae indet. Ameghino 1894	Cerdeño and Vera 2014
	MCNAM-PV 3851 and 3842
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Homalodotheriidae

	? Asmodeus indet. Ameghino 1894
	= Asmodeus petrasnerus n. sp. Seoane and Cerdeño 2014	Seoane and Cerdeño 2014
	MCNAM-PV 4101 - type
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae

	Toxodontidae indet. Scott 1873	Hernández Del Pino et al. 2017
	MCNAM-PV 3907

	Proadinotherium sp. Ameghino 1894
	MCNAM-PV 4238, 4960, 3843, 4085 and 4215
Mammalia - Notoungulata

	Mendozahippus fierensis n. gen., n. sp. Cerdeño and Vera 2010	Cerdeño and Vera 2010	2 specimens
	MCNAM-PV 4004, skull; MCNAM-PV 3846, palatal fragments; additional material was recovered later according to ref. 58076

	cf. Mendozahippus fierensis Cerdeño and Vera 2010	Cerdeño and Vera 2010	1 specimen
	MLP 96-XI-20-14, associated upper teeth
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Leontiniidae

	Scarrittia sp. Simpson 1934
	= Gualta cuyana n. gen., n. sp. Cerdeño and Vera 2015	Cerdeño and Vera 2015
	MCNAM-PV 3951 - holotype
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae

	cf. Archaeotypotherium sp. Roth 1903	Cerdeño et al. 2010
	MCNAM-PV 3868

	Archaeohyrax suniensis Billet et al. 2009	Cerdeño et al. 2010
	MCNAM-PV 3849, 3850, 3969; MLP 96-XI-20-8, and MLP 96-XI-20-7, MLP 79-XII-18-47, MCNAM-PV 3845, MCNAM-PV 3954, MCNAM-PV 4060, MLP 77-VI-1-1, and MLP 77-VI-1-2, MCNAM-PV 4067 PV 4068, PV 4144, PV 4146, MLP 79-XI-18-44, MLP 79-XI- 18-46, and MLP 96-XI-20-10
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae

	Trachytherus cf. spegazzinianus Ameghino 1889	Cerdeño 2014
	MCNAM-PV 4936
Mammalia - Notoungulata

	cf. Prosotherium sp. Ameghino 1897

	Propachyrucos cf. smithwoodwardi Ameghino 1897	Cerdeño and Reguero 2015
	MCNAM-PV 4189 (and more)
	= Prosotherium garzoni Ameghino 1897	Seoane et al. 2019
	MCNAM-PV 5016, 4991, 4818 (and more)

	Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus Kramarz and Paz 2013	Kramarz and Bond 2017
	MCNAM-PV 3984, 3852 and 4620

	Hegetotheriinae indet. Ameghino 1894	Hernández Del Pino et al. 2022
	MCNAM-PV 4185

	Prohegetotherium sp. Ameghino 1897	Cerdeño and Reguero 2015
	MCNAM-PV 4406, 4652, 4656, 4666

	Prohegetotherium schiaffinoi (Kraglievich 1932)	Cerdeño and Reguero 2015
	MCNAM-PV 3959, 5076 (and more)

	Prohegetotherium cf. schiaffinoi (Kraglievich 1932)	Hernández Del Pino et al. 2022
	MCNAM-PV 4982

	Prohegetotherium malalhuense n. sp. Cerdeño and Reguero 2015	Cerdeño and Reguero 2015
	MCNAM-PV 3848 - type

	Hegetotheriinae indet. Ameghino 1894
	= Prohegetotherium cf. sculptum Ameghino 1897	Cerdeño and Reguero 2015
	MCNAM-PV 4655, 4662, 4660, 4408, 4659
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae

	Interatheriidae sp. (Ameghino 1887)
	MCNAM-PV 4742

	Argyrohyrax proavus Ameghino 1897	Vera et al. 2017
	MCNAM-PV 3855 (and more)

	Plagiarthrus sp. Ameghino 1896

	Progaleopithecus sp. Ameghino 1904	Vera et al. 2017
	MCNAM-PV 4707

	Interatheriinae indet. Simpson 1945	Hernández Del Pino et al. 2022
	MCNAM-PV 4724
Mammalia

	Fieratherium sorex n. gen., n. sp. Forasiepi et al. 2014	Forasiepi et al. 2014	1 specimen
	MCNAM-PV 3958, associated premaxilla, maxilla, and dentaries
Mammalia - Sparassodonta

	Pharsophorus sp. Ameghino 1897

	Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino 1897
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
see common names

Geography

Country:	Argentina	State/province:	Mendoza	County:	Malargüe
Coordinates:	36.6° South, 69.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	36.2° South, 64.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Altitude:	1406 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time


10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 4-5
Key time interval:	Deseadan
Age range of interval:	29 - 21 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Malargüe	Formation:	Agua de la Piedra
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Base of the Agua de la Piedra Formation Schmidt et al. 2019: The faunal assemblage was then assigned to the Late Oligocene (Deseadan SALMA) based on the presence of two typical representatives of the Deseadean fauna of Patagonia: Pyrotherium Ameghino, 1888 and Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino, 1897 (Gorroño et al., 1979; Bond and Pascual, 1983; Cerdeño and Vera, 2017). New faunal data confirm the Deseadan age, but absolute dating is lacking for Quebrada Fiera.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	gray,white tuff
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: white-grayish tuffs and tobaceous paleosols, with laminated or massive parallel stratification
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:	1970s; 2006 onwards
Collection method comments: Schmidt et al. 2019: The site was discovered during a geological prospection carried out by Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) in the late seventies (Gorroño et al., 1979).

Metadata

Database number:	176466
Authorizer:	J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion	Enterer:	J. Zijlstra, G. Varnham, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Kouvari	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2016-02-13 14:57:22	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2016-02-13 14:57:22
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

58076.

E. Cerdeño. 2012. Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza), an important paleobiogeographic center in the South American late Oligocene. Estudios Geológicos 67(2):375-384 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]

Secondary references:

62632		A. A. Carlini, M. R. Ciancio, J. J. Flynn, G. J. Scillato-Yané, and A. R. Wyss. 2009. The phylogenetic and biostratigraphic significance of new armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae, Euphractinae) from the Tinguirirican (early Oligocene) of Chile. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(4):489-503 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62525		E. Cerdeño. 2014. First Record of Mesotheriidae in the Late Oligocene of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 51(4):366-370 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62523		E. Cerdeño, M. Reguero, and B. Vera. 2010. Deseadan Archaeohyracidae (Notoungulata) from Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) in the Paleobiogeographic Context of the South American Late Oligocene. Journal of Paleontology 84(6):1177-1187 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62526		E. Cerdeño and M. Reguero. 2015. The Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) assemblage from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(2):e907173:1-14 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
58078		E. Cerdeño and B. Vera. 2010. Mendozahippus fierensis, gen. et sp. nov., new Notohippidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene of Mendoza (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1805-1817 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]
62524		E. Cerdeño and B. Vera. 2014. New data on diversity of Notohippidae from the Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):941-950 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62521		E. Cerdeño and B. Vera. 2015. A new Leontiniidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene beds of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(11):943-962 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62579		E. Cerdeño and B. Vera. 2017. New anatomical data on Pyrotherium (Pyrotheriidae) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina. Ameghiniana 54(3):290-306 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
58077		A. M. Forasiepi, F. J. Goin, M. A. Abello and E. Cerdeño. 2014. A unique, Late Oligocene shrew-like marsupial from western Argentina and the evolution of dental morphology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12(5):549-564 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Mannion]
62561		S. Hernández Del Pino, F. D. Seoane, and E. Cerdeño. 2017. New postcranial remains of large toxodontian notoungulates from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina and their systematic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(1):195-210 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
86156		S. Hernández Del Pino, F. D. Seoane, and E. Cerdeño. 2022. New craniodental material of the typotherian notoungulates from the upper Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina and their taxonomical importance . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67(4):983-997 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62639		A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]
69648		G. I. Schmidt, E. Cerdeño, and S. Hernández Pino. 2019. Macraucheniidae and Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) from Quebrada Fiera (Late Oligocene), Mendoza Province, Argentina. Andean Geology 46(2):368-382 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
62522		F. Seoane and E. Cerdeño. 2014. First Extra-Patagonian Record of Asmodeus Ameghino (Notoungulata, Homalodotheriidae) in the Late Oligocene of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 51(5):373-384 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
69985		F. D. Seoane, E. Cerdeño, and H. Singleton. 2019. Re-assessment of the Oligocene genera Prosotherium and Propachyrucos (Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata). Comptes Rendus Palevol 18(6):643-662 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
62562		B. Vera, E. Cerdeño, and M. Reguero. 2017. The Interatheriinae from the Late Oligocene of Mendoza (Argentina), with comments on some Deseadan Interatheriidae. Historical Biology 29(5):607-626 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]