Santa Lucía Basin: Deseadan, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Kraglievich 1930:197-203
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Propachyrucos schiaffinoi n. sp. Kraglievich 1932
Reguero and Cerdeño 2005 1 specimen
MNHN-DP-186, left maxilla with P2-M2, from Cañada de Las Mulas. See also Kraglievich 1932a:277-279
Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Astrapotheriidae
Kraglievich 1928a:1-16
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Devincenzia gallinali n. gen., n. sp. Kraglievich 1932
Kraglievich 1932b:323-325
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:Canelones
Coordinates: 34.4° South, 56.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° South, 50.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4-5
Key time interval: Deseadan Mammal zone:  Deseadan
Age range of interval: 29 - 21 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fray Bentos
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: In fluvial sediments deposited in the Santa Lucia Basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: FCDPV
Metadata
Database number:176488
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-14 21:17:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-14 21:17:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

58093. A. Mones and M. Ubilla. 1978. La Edad Deseadense (Oligoceno inferior) de la Formación Fray Bentos y su contenido paleontológico, con especial referencia a la presencia de Proborhyaena cf. gigantea Ameghino (Marsupialia: Borhyaenidae) en el Uruguay. Nota preliminar. Comunicaciones Paleontológicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 7(1):151-158 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]

Secondary references:

16747 M. A. Reguero and E. Cerdeño. 2005. New late Oligocene Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Salla, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):674-684 [D. Croft/D. Croft]