Paso del Cuello, Libertad Fm: Late Pleistocene, Uruguay
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Chinchillidae
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Lagostomus sp.
Brookes 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FC-DPV-639 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| FC-DPV-640 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Chaetophractus cf. villosus
Desmarest 1804
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FC-DPV-638, mobile osteoderm | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Uruguay | State/province: | Canelones |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° South, 56.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 22 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Libertad |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176485 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-14 13:51:30 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-14 13:51:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45092. | D. Perea. 1993. Nuevos Dasypodidae fósiles de Uruguay. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 66:149-154 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |