Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (38.3° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 57.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lujanian mammal zone, Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow, sandy siltstone and brown, gray, silty siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: E. P. Tonni and F. Fidalgo. 1982. Geología y Paleontología de los sedimentos del Pleistoceno en el área de Punta Hermengo (Miramar, Prov. de Buenos Aires, Rep. Argentina): Aspectos paleoclimáticos. Ameghiniana 19(1-2):79-108 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140805: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 17.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lestodelphys cf. halli Thomas 1921 Patagonian opussum | |
"Tolypeutes cf. matacus" = Tolypeutes tricinctus matacus, Zaedyus cf. pichiy
"Tolypeutes cf. matacus" = Tolypeutes tricinctus matacus Azara 1801 three banded armadillo
Zaedyus cf. pichiy Desmarest 1804 pichi | |
Ctenomys sp. de Blainville 1826 caviomorph | |
Microcavia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 caviomorph | |
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha | |
Reithrodon auritus Fischer 1814 bunny rat | |
Aves | |
Colaptes campestris Vieillot 1818 campo flicker | |
Psittacidae sp. Illiger 1811 parrot
Cyanoliseus cf. patagonus Vieillot 1818 burrowing parakeet | |
Nothura sp. Wagler 1827 tinamou |