Aviá Terai: Lujanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Mothé and Avilla 2015
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chaco
Coordinates: 26.7° South, 60.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Lujanian
Age range of interval: 0.4 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Bonaerense-Lujanense (Pleistoceno medio- Holoceno temprano)" = Lujanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
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
Metadata
Database number:78576
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-10 21:11:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-10 21:11:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26422. A. E. Zurita, A. A. Carlini, G. J. Scillato-Yané and E. P. Tonni. 2004. Mamíferos extintos del Cuaternario de la Provincia del Chaco (Argentina) y su relación con aquéllos del este de la región pampeana y de Chile. Revista geológica de Chile 31(1):65-87 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

66428 D. Mothé and L. Avilla. 2015. Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea). Quaternary Science Reviews 110:23-35 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]