Farola Monte Hermoso: Montehermosan, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Buenos Aires |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° South, 61.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.8° South, 60.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Montehermosan | Mammal zone: | Eumysops laeviplicatus Range Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 5 - 3.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Monte Hermoso | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Montehermosan (Early Pliocene; Zanclean; Tomassini et al., 2013a)
Biostratigraphic units recognized in the sequence: type sec- tion of the Eumysops laeviplicatus Range Zone (Tomassini et al., 2013a). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | muddy,sandy siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | fine,brown,yellow siltstone |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Museo Darwin (MD), Punta Alta, Provincia de Buenos Aires | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 198863 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, J. Head | Enterer: | M. Kouvari, G. Varnham |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
| Created: | 2019-01-16 06:41:38 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-01-16 06:41:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45892. | C. M. Deschamps, G. I. Esteban, and M. S. Bargo. 2001. El registro más antiguo del género Lestodon Gervais, 1855 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Mylodontidae) (Montehermosense, Plioceno Temprano). Ameghiniana 38(2):151-156 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |
Secondary references:
| 85199 | A. M. Aranciaga-Rolando, F. L. Agnolin, A. G. Martinelli and V. E. Buide. 2021. Oldest record of the pit-viper Bothrops (Squamata, Viperidae), fro m the Lower Pliocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. South American Journal of Herpetology 21(1):34-40 [J. Head/G. Varnham] | |
| 67741 | C. M. Deschamps and R. L. Tomassini. 2016. Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update. In M. Martínez, D. Olivera (eds.), Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio 16(2):202-225 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] | |
| 48434 | C. M. Deschamps, M. G. Vucetich, D. H. Verzi and A. I. Olivares. 2012. Biostratigraphy and correlation of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene, Argentina): The evidence from caviomorph rodents. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 35:1-9 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo/M. Uhen] | |
| 86541 | A. Nuñez-Blasco, Á R. Miño-Boilini, R. A. Bonini, F. H. S. Barbosa, R. L. Tomassini and A. E. Zuritaa. 2023. New remains of Eleutherocercus (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the Pampean and Northwestern regions of Argentina: morphology and phylogeny of late Neogene Doedicurinae. Historical Biology 35(8):1274-1287 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 51784 | L. L. Rasia and A. M. Candela. 2013. Systematic and biostratigraphic significance of a chinchillid rodent from tre Pliocene of eastern Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(2):241-254 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] | |
| 73131 | E. P. Tonni, J. L. Prado, F. Fidalgo and J. H. Laza. 1992. El Piso/Edad Monlehermosense (Plioceno) y sus mamíferos. Actas III Jornadas Geologicas Bonarenses 113-118 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |