Santa Clara: Lujanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodon darwini Owen 1839
MMP M 4701
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mothé et al. 2017
MMCNSCM-1
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Buenos Aires
Coordinates: 37.8° South, 57.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° South, 57.5° 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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:212465
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion, M. Kouvari
Created:2020-08-14 10:39:00 Last modified:2020-08-14 05:39:00
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-14 10:39:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

73598 D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]