Corral Quemado: Huayquerian - Montehermosan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Phorusrhacidae
Alvarenga and Holfing 2003
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Hermosiornithidae
Alvarenga and Holfing 2003
Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Thylacosmilidae
Riggs 1933
Holotype: P14531; Paratype: P14344
Riggs 1933
P14474
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Goin and Pardiñas 1996
FMNH P14519 mandibular fragment
Mammalia - Cingulata
Cabrera 1944
MLP 31-XI-12-7
Eosclerocalyptus proximus (Moreno and Mercerat 1891)
Cabrera 1944
MLP 31-XI-12-13
Hoplophractus proximus Moreno and Mercerat 1891
Cabrera 1944
MLP 31-XI-12-19, 12-21,
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Catamarca County:Belen
Coordinates: 27.0° South, 66.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° South, 65.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Huayquerian - Montehermosan
Age range of interval: 8 - 3.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Corral Quemado
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Corral Quemada
Database number:206027
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari, G. Varnham
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2019-10-29 03:14:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-10-29 03:14:51
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
70250. A. E. Zurita. 2007. Los Hoplophorini (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) del “Araucanense” (Mioceno tardío-Plioceno) del noroeste de la Argentina: sistemática, paleobiogeografía y paleoambientes. Ameghiniana 44(2):257-269 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]

Secondary references:

35669 H. M. F. Alvarenga and E. Holfing. 2003. Systematic revision of the Phorusrhacidae (Avies: Ralliformes). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 43(4):55-91 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
73356 A. Cabrera. 1944. Los Gliptodontoideos del Araucaniano de Catamarca. Revista del Museo de La Plata 3(15):5-76 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]
73010 F. J. Goin and U. F. J. Pardiñas. 1996. Revisión de las especies del Género Hyperdidelphys Ameghino, 1904 (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Didelphidae). Su significación filogenética, estratigráfica y adaptativa en el Neógeno del Cono Sur Sudamericano. . Estudios Geológicos 52:327-359 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]
72968 E. S. Riggs. 1933. Preliminary description of a new marsupial sabertooth fom the Pliocene of Argentina. Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 6:61-66 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]