Playa Sanchez: Serravallian, Uruguay
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Proeuphractus limpidus
Ameghino 1886
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Uruguay | State/province: | San Jose |
| Coordinates: | 34.6° South, 57.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° South, 53.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Miocene | *Local age/stage: | Huayquerian |
| Key time interval: | Serravallian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82 - 11.63 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kiyu | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Probably correlated to the bottom of Raigon Formation or the top of Camacho Formation. Cozzuol (2006) places this locality in the Serravalian, which is earlier than Huayquerian. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: Basal gray pelite | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13651 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-04-16 16:52:22 | Last modified: | 2020-11-30 07:23:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-16 16:52:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6186. | 5% 4840 | D. Perea and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 1995. Proeuphractus limpidus Ameghino, 1886 (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae, Euphractini): Osteologia comparada del craneo y elementos de la coraza asociados (Neogeno del Uruguay). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 90:125-130 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 19222 | M. A. Cozzuol. 2006. The Acre vertebrate fauna: Age, diversity, and geography. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21:185-203 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |