El Surgente Ranch (Neogene of Argentina)

Also known as estancia "El Surgente"

Where: La Pampa, Argentina (37.3° S, 64.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 62.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pampean Formation, Huayquerian (8.0 - 5.0 Ma)

• Bondesio 1978: Los restos fósiles provienen de la Formación Pampeano y el nivel fosilífero se encuentra a 50 metros bajo el nivel superior de terraza (fide Salso 1966). Por su asociación faunística han sido considerados de Edad Huayqueriense.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithology not reported

• These and other mammals indicate floodplain with lentic and lotic waters

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Pascual and P. Bondesio. 1982. Un roedor Cardiatheriinae (Hydrochoeridae) de la edad Huayqueriense (Mioceno Tardio) de La Pampa. Sumario de los ambientes terrestres en la Argentina durante el Mioceno. Ameghiniana 19(1-2):19-35 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13778: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 25.04.2002, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Carlos Jaramillo

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae
Cardiatherium aff. orientalis2 caviomorph
Bondesio 1978: Cardiotheriinae indet. MLP 62-XII-4-17 y 18
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae1
"Macrauchenidae indet." = Macraucheniidae1 Ameghino 1889 placental
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)
 Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Hemihegetotherium sp.1 Rovereto 1914 notoungulate
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
aff. Typotheriopsis sp.1 Cabrera and Kraglievich 1930 notoungulate
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)
Pseudotypotherium sp.1 Ameghino 1904 notoungulate
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidotheriinae indet.1 Ameghino 1889 edentate
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet.1 Gervais 1855 edentate
determined by Dr. Rosendo Pascual (Salso, op. cit.)