Portezuelo Sumich Sur, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz (Miocene of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (47.0° S, 70.6° W: paleocoordinates 47.7° S, 64.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pinturan zone, Pinturas Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Pertains to "Middle Sequence" = "Pinturan" of Kramarz & Bellosi 2005

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: T. M. Bown and C. N. Larriestra. 1990. Sedimentary paleoenvironments of fossil platyrrhine localities, Miocene Pinturas Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Journal of Human Evolution 19(1-2):87-119 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59320: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 26.03.2006, edited by Juan Carrillo, Jelle Zijlstra and Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Tetramerorhinus fleaglei10 Kramarz and Bond 2005 placental
5 specimens
Tetramerorhinus prosistens10 Ameghino 1899 placental
5 specimens
 Primates - Pitheciidae
"Pitheciinae indet." = Pitheciidae11
"Pitheciinae indet." = Pitheciidae11 Mivart 1865 monkey
MPM-PV 17400, incisor
 Primates -
Carlocebus carmenensis4 Fleagle 1990 monkey
6 specimens; MPM PV 21646
 Primates - Homunculidae
cf. Soriacebus sp.11 Fleagle et al. 1987 monkey
MPM-PV 17397, right lower canine
Soriacebus adrianae n. sp.4 Fleagle 1990 monkey
6 specimens. Also ref. 58232: MPM-PV 17401, p2; MPM-PV 17399, P2. 58232: Also ref 71056: MPM-CV1605 and 606
 Rodentia - Dinomyidae
Scleromys quadrangulatus9 Kramarz 2006 caviomorph
1 specimen
 Rodentia - Neoepiblemidae
Perimys intermedius6 Kramarz 2002 caviomorph
16 specimens
 Rodentia -
Steiromys duplicatus7 Ameghino 1887 caviomorph
2 specimens
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Branisamyopsis praesigmoides n. sp.7 Kramarz 2004 porcupine
2 specimens
 Rodentia -
Eosteiromys annectens7 Ameghino 1901 caviomorph
1 specimen
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Prostichomys bowni7 Kramarz 2001 spiny rat
30+ specimens
 Rodentia - Acaremyidae
Galileomys eurygnathus n. sp.7 Kramarz 2004 caviomorph
3 specimens
 Rodentia -
Luantus propheticus8 Ameghino 1899 caviomorph
11 specimens
  - Mylodontidae
Nematherium sp.2 Ameghino 1887 edentate
MPM-PV 17423, MPM-PV 17424, and MPM-PV 17425
 Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Propalaeothentes lepidus1 Bown and Fleagle 1993 marsupial
SC-989
Palaeothentes minutus1 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
MACN SC numbers 819, 904, 1028-1032, 1036A, 1036B, 1037, 1041, 1043, 1044, 1095, 3268, 3274, 3275
Acdestis oweni1 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
MACN SC numbers 874, 896, 972, 988, 989B, 990, 991, 1008, 1011, 1018, 1021, 1026, 1027, 1042, 1195, 1197, 1386, 1486, 3269, 3273
 Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotheriidae indet.3 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
MACN Pv SC3648C, ?M2
Microbiotherium cf. gallegosense3 Sinclair 1906 marsupial
MACN Pv SC3644, dentary m1; SC3645, m1
Microbiotherium tehuelchum3 Ameghino 1887 marsupial
MACN Pv SC3622, right dentary with m2-3
"Microbiotherium divisum" = Oligobiotherium divisum3 Ameghino 1902 marsupial
MACN Pv SC277, dentary m2-4; SC3619B, dentary m3; SC3627, dentary m3-4; SC3638, dentary m4; SC3641, dentary m3, partial m4; SC3648, M2
Pachybiotherium illuminatum n. sp.5 Goin et al. 2010 marsupial
MPM-PV 1805, dentary m3-4, holotype; MPM-PV 1806, M3