Camet Norte (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (37.8° S, 57.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 57.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Clara Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Camet Norte facies of the Santa Clara Formation. Mammals typical of the Equus (Amerihippus) neogeus biozone, which marks the base of the upper Lujanian stage. Radiocarbon dated at 24,550 +/- 600 years before present by Pardiñas et al. (1998).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified claystone

• It is a locally restricted deposit whose origin is inferred to have been a freshwater lake environment near the shoreline (Fasano et al., 1994)
• Fine clays, very plastic, blue-green color

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Primary reference: L. C. Ramírez and C. P. Alonso. 2014. Bradysia aliciae sp. nov. (Diptera: Sciaridae) del Pleistoceno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 73:81-83 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183973: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2017, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Protocyon troglodytes
Protocyon troglodytes Lund 1938 canine
MLP O4-VII-10-1; MLP 04-VII-11-1
Insecta
 Diptera - Sciaridae
Bradysia aliciae n. sp.
Bradysia aliciae n. sp. Ramírez and Alonso 2014 dark-winged fungus gnat
LM-FCEN 3072