Barranca Parodi (Zone of Akodon (Akodon) lorenzinii): Late Pliocene, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Megatherium sp. Cuvier 1796
Taxon ranging from the zone to younger levels
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Taxon ranging from the zone to younger levels
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Pseudalopex sp. Burmeister 1856
Taxon ranging from the zone to younger levels
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
Taxon ranging from the zone to younger levels
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Taxon ranging from the zone to younger levels
Taxon with last record on this zone
unclassified
Taxon with last record on this zone
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Dolicavia sp. Ameghino 1916
Taxon with last record on this zone
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Taxon with last record on this zone
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 38.1° South, 57.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° South, 57.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene Zone:  Zone of Akodon (Akodon) lorenzinii - Vorohuen
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vorohué
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: This zone is the biostratigraphic basis for the Vorohuean.

roughly the Vorohuen “Formation” of Kraglievich, 1952

Vorohué Formation, Marplatan Age/Stage, Vorohuean Subage/Substage (late Pliocene).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:beds from paleosol 9 to paleosol 11 of Zarate, 1989
Database number:199157
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2019-01-23 04:51:32 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-01-23 04:51:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
67787. A. L. Cione and E. P. Tonni. 1996. Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9(3/4):221-236 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari/M. Kouvari]