Salado River, General Belgrano: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Tenebrionidae
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Epipedonota cristallisata
Waterhouse 1844
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MHM-PI 32 | ||||||||||
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Nyctelia picipes
(Billberg 1815)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MHM-PI 31 | ||||||||||
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Scotobius pilularius
Germar 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MHM-PI 33 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Notiomastodon platensis
(Ameghino 1888)
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Mothé et al. 2017 | |||||||||
| MLP-40-III-29-2 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Buenos Aires |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° South, 58.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° South, 58.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,green unlithified sandy claystone | ||
| Lithology description: Greenish brown sandy clays, exhibiting abundant organic matter, gypsum, and carbonate concretions | |||
| Environment: | pond | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
| Geology comments: Small paleopond environment that was filled by fluvial sediments | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Histórico Municipal "Alfredo Enrique Mulgura" of General Belgrano City (MHM) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125395 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Jepson, P. Mannion, M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Jepson, M. Clapham, M. Kouvari |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-03-09 03:38:52 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-09 03:38:52 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61301. | L. C. Ramírez, R. Carrara, V. A. Silvestro and G. E. Flores. 2016. First fossil assemblage of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Buenos Aires, Argentina: evidence of dry climate during the Late Pleistocene in the humid Pampas. Annales Zoologici 66:643-652 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 73598 | D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] |