Barro Negro near Tres Cruces: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hippidion sp.
Owen 1869
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Jujuy |
| Coordinates: | 22.9° South, 65.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.9° South, 65.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 3820 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 12.530 ± 160 to 10.200 ± 140 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The fossil bearing stratum was C-14 dated to late Pleistocene in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | fine sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | spring |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 140909 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | J. Carrillo | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-19 02:21:03 | Last modified: | 2013-03-18 10:21:03 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2014-03-19 02:21:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45722. | J. Fernandez. 1986. Hippidion: New Data on the now extinct American Horse in Northwest Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic implications. Current Research in the Pleistocene 3:64-67 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo] |