Barrancas del rio Carcaraña: Lujanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Chelonoidis chilensis (Gray 1870)
de Broin and de la Fuente 1993
recombined as Geochelone chilensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825
MACN, shell fragments
    = Phrynops cf. hilarii Dumeril and Bibron 1835
de Broin and de la Fuente 1993
    = cf. Phrynops sp. Wagler 1830
de la Fuente 1997
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium cf. torresi
Vezzosi et al. 2019
MPAHND-135: Proximal two thirds of a left femur
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodon darwini Owen 1839
Brandoni et al. 2010
MACN Pv 11502
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon reticulatus Owen 1845
Cuadrelli et al. 2019
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Coendou cf. magnus Lund 1839
Vezzosi and Kerber 2018
MFAePv 1706, right mandibular fragment with the incisor root and m1-m3 series
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Sante Fé
Coordinates: 32.5° South, 60.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° South, 60.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Lujanian
Age range of interval:0.30000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Timbúes
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Vezzosi et al. 2019: In this work we assume that the well-defined fluvial deposits bearing the studied specimen correspond to the Timbúes Formation defined by Iriondo and Kröhling (2009), in the lower area of the Carcarañá River catchment. Despite not having geochronological data, the relative stratigraphic position of this lithostratigraphic unit, observed in several sections (Vezzosi, 2015) mainly on the Paraná River cliffs near Carcarañá River distal area (Timbúes and Campo de La Gloria sites, Fig. 1B), suggests that it was deposited during the Last Interglacial Stage.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Carcarañá River, Espinillo natural reserve
Database number:189512
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, P. Mannion Enterer:E. Vlachos, G. Varnham, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Wagner
Created:2017-10-24 16:47:28 Last modified:2021-02-15 19:13:05
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-24 16:47:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

73396 D. Brandoni, B. S. Ferrero, and E. Brunetto. 2010. Mylodon darwini Owen (Xenarthra, Mylodontinae) from the late Pleistocene of Mesopotamia, Argentina, with remarks on individual variability, paleobiology, paleobiogeography, and paleoenvironment. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1547-1558 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
73494 F. Cuadrelli, A. E. Zurita, P. Toriño, A. R. Miño-Boilini, S. Rodríguez-Bualó, D. Perea, and G. E. Acuña Suárez. 2019. Late Pleistocene Glyptodontinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) from southern South America: a comprehensive review. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1525390:1-18 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
42415 F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]
64133 M. S. de la Fuente. 1997. Las tortugas pleistocenas del extremo meridional de la Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 33:67-90 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
73393 R. I. Vezzosi, D. Brandoni, E. Brunetto and M. C. Zalazar. 2019. New remains of Nothrotheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from Late Pleistocene fluvial deposits of Northern Pampa (Santa Fe Province, Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 89:47-54 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Wagner]
73398 R. I. Vezzosi and L. Kerber. 2018. The southernmost record of a large erethizontid rodent (Hystricomorpha: Erethizontoidea) in the Pleistocene of South America: Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 82:76-90 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]