Rio Quequén Salado: Montehermosan, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
Hydromedusa cf. tectifera Cope 1869
de la Fuente 1992
MIG 17, shell fragments
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae
Pliolestes tripotamicus Reig 1955
(5 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 38.9° South, 60.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° South, 59.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Montehermosan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 3.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Irenense" de Kraglievich (1934, p.116), Edad Montehermosense, Plioceno superior? (ver Pascual et.al., 1965, p. 178).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MLP
Metadata
Database number:140635
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Carrillo, E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-13 05:28:35 Last modified:2013-03-12 13:28:35
Access level:database members Released:2014-03-13 05:28:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45565. R. Pascual and H. E. Herrera. 1973. Adiciones al conocimiento de Pliolestes tripotamicus Reig, 1955 (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Caenolestidae) del Plioceno Superior de la Argentina. Sobre la presencia de éste género en el Plioceno inferior (Formación Arroyo Chasicó) del Suroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ameghiniana 10(1):36-50 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]

Secondary references:

63676 M. S. de la Fuente. 1992. Las tortugas Chelidae del Terciario superior y Cuaternario del territorio argentino. Ameghiniana 29(3):211-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]