Vado de Cura Brochero (Pliocene of Argentina)

Also known as Villa de Cura Brochero

Where: Córdoba, Argentina (31.7° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 64.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brochero Formation, Chapadmalalan (4.0 - 3.0 Ma)

• It is very difficult to determine the age of deposition of the Brochero Formation of Traslasierra Valley. The fossil fauna of vertebrates recorded from the Brochero Formation allows us to propose 3 hypothesis regarding the age on the basis of the biochrons discussed above, the best hypothesis is that this assemblage may be Chapadmalalan in age. However more studies should be done.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; poorly lithified, lenticular, sandy siltstone

• the facies associations here described suggest a fluvial paleoenvironment of meandering type where two major sub-environments are recognized: channels or channel belts (facies 1 to 4, Fig. 2) and vegetated floodplains (facies 5 and 6, Fig. 2). The meandering river systems con- sist of a single high sinuosity channel (with point bars or bars spurs) and floodplain deposits with fine sedimentation and overflow lobes and channels.
• Laminated sandy-silts and silty-clays (Ll-Fl) facies: layers of sandy silts, clay silts laminated with interbedded lenses and layers of fine to very fine sands, which are interpreted as floodplains deposits

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2017

Primary reference: L. E. Cruz, J. C. Fernicola, and C. A. Carignano. 2018. New Vertebrates of the Brochero Formation (Córdoba, Argentina): A Review of the Pliocene of Central Argentina. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 25:315-326 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197902: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 28.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodontidae indet.
Glyptodontidae indet. Burmeister 1879 glyptodon
MCNC-PV 303
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Doellotatus cf. chapadmalensis
Doellotatus cf. chapadmalensis Bordas 1932 armadillo
MCNC-PV 305
 Rodentia - Hydrochoeridae
Phugatherium cf. novum
Phugatherium cf. novum Ameghino 1908 caviomorph
MCNC-PV 302