Where: Presidente Hayes, Paraguay (22.7° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 57.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Chaco Formation, Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Quaternary age deposits are referrable to the "Pozo del Tigre" member of the Chaco Formation. For a detailed description, see Marengo 2015.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Material was found disarticulated
Primary reference: S. D. Rios Diaz. 2013. Una nueva localidad de vertebrados cuaternarios en Puerto Pinasco, Dpto. de Presidente Hayes, Republica del Paraguay. Ameghiniana 50(4):29-29 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191096: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.01.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Toxodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 notoungulate | |
Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate | |
Pampatheriidae indet. Paula Couto 1954 edentate | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae Ameghino 1889 placental |