Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (35.8° S, 58.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° S, 56.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Guerrero Member (Luján Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• considered of late Miocene to Pliocene age (Bonini et al., 2017). The specimens of Lagostomus incisus come from a locality with other typical Pliocene taxa (e.g., Actenomys priscus (Owen, 1840), Paedotherium typicum Ameghino, 1887; Bonini et al., 2017).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: E. P. Tonni. 1981. Pediolagus salinicola (Rodentia, Caviidae) en el Pleistoceno tardío de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ameghiniana 18(3-4):123-126 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140713: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 15.03.2013, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Lagostomus incisus" = Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis) incisus
"Lagostomus incisus" = Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis) incisus Ameghino 1888 viscacha | |
Pediolagus salinicola Burmeister 1875 mara | |
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Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon |