Charata: Lujanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Miño-Boilini and Carlini 2009
MRCH 109
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Mothé et al. 2017
MRCH 016
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: 27.2° South, 61.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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:78578
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, C. Jaramillo Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Carrillo, G. Varnham, M. Kouvari
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-02-10 21:15:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-10 21:15:54
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:

73492 A. R. Miño-Boilini and A. A. Carlini. 2009. The Scelidotheriinae Ameghino, 1904 (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Ensenadan–Lujanian Stage/Ages (Early Pleistocene to Early-Middle Pleistocene–Early Holocene) of Argentina. Quarternary International 210:93-101 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
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]
73598 D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]