Puerto Arazati Beach: Late Miocene, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Fernicola et al. 2018
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Fernicola et al. 2018
Holotype: MNHN 1642
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Perea 1993
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Plohophorus figuratus Ameghino 1887
Toriño and Perea 2018
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Kraglievichia paranense (Ameghino 1883)
Perea 1993
Mammalia - Cingulata
Pseudoplohophorus sp. Castellanos 1926
Toriño and Perea 2018
Toriño and Perea 2018
Mammalia - Rodentia
Fernicola et al. 2018
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
cf. Prodolichotis sp. Kraglievich 1932
Ubilla and Rinderknecht 2003
Mammalia - Cetacea
Fernicola et al. 2018
Mammalia - Panameriungulata
Litopterna indet. Ameghino 1889
Fernicola et al. 2018
Mammalia - Notoungulata
Fernicola et al. 2018
Mammalia
Fernicola et al. 2018
marsupial carnivores
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay State/province:San José
Coordinates: 34.6° South, 56.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° South, 55.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Miocene
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Camacho
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: This Formation is the representation, in Uruguay, of an extended, late Miocene, eustatic event regionally known as the Para- nean transgression or Paranean Sea
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The sediments of the Camacho Formation are formed by greenish- grey friable and medium compressed pelite that becomes greenish-brownish toward the top of the formation.
Environment:paralic indet.
Geology comments: In the San José Department, this formation includes facies related to the regressive phase characterized as estuarine and/or paralic environments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:113415
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion, C. Jaramillo Enterer:M. Shalap, G. Varnham, M. Kouvari, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2011-07-30 11:14:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-30 11:14:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
36810. S. F. Vizcaino, A. Rinderknecht, and A. Czerwonogora. 2003. An Enigmatic Cingulata (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the Late Miocene of Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(4):981-983 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]

Secondary references:

69103 J. C. Fernicola, A. Rinderknecht, W. Jones, S. F. Vizcaíno, and K. Porpino. 2018. A new species of Neoglyptatelus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the Late Miocene of Uruguay provides new insights on the evolution of the dorsal armor in cingulates. Ameghiniana 55(3):233-252 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
45092 D. Perea. 1993. Nuevos Dasypodidae fósiles de Uruguay. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 66:149-154 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]
69865 P. Toriño and D. Perea. 2018. New contributions to the systematics of the “Plohophorini” (Mammalia, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from Uruguay. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 86:410-430 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
69354 M. Ubilla and A. Rinderknecht. 2003. A Late Miocene Dolichotinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Caviide) from Uruguay, with comments about the relationships of some related fossil species. Mastozoología Neotropical 10(2):293-302 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]