Punta Nava lower Deseadan level: Deseadan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cephalomyidae
Mammalia - Rodentia
2 specimens
MPM-PV 4877, mandible p4-m3; MPM-PV 4878, m2
Mammalia - Pyrotheridae
Pyrotherium sp. Ameghino 1888
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 47.0° South, 66.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.8° South, 62.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4-5
Key time interval: Deseadan
Age range of interval: 29 - 21 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sarmiento
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:176626
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra Enterer:J. Zijlstra
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-02-18 23:26:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-02-18 23:26:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

58195. M. E. Pérez, M. Krause, and M. G. Vucetich. 2012. A new species of Chubutomys (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the late Oligocene of Patagonia and its implications on the early evolutionary history of Cavioidea sensu stricto. Geobios 45(6):573-580 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]