Rio Parana: Tortonian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Pontivaga fischeri n. gen., n. sp.
Ameghino 1891
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Ameghino 1891 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Iniidae
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Ischyrorhynchus vanbenedeni n. gen., n. sp.
Ameghino 1891
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Ameghino 1891 | ||||||
Anisodelphis brevirostratus n. gen., n. sp.
Rovereto 1915
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Rovereto 1915 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Ischyrorhynchus vanbenedeni | |||||||
Saurocetes argentinus n. gen., n. sp.
Burmeister 1871
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Burmeister 1871 | ||||||
Saurocetes obliquus n. sp.
Ameghino 1891
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Ameghino 1891 | ||||||
synonym of Saurocetes argentinus | |||||||
Saurodelphis acutirostratus n. sp.
Rovereto 1915
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Rovereto 1915 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Saurocetes argentinus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Palaeobalaena dubia
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Doering 1882 | ||||||
Palaeobalaena bergii
(Moreno 1882)
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Doering 1882 | ||||||
original and current combination Palaeobalaena bergi | |||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hydrochoeridae
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Protohydrochoerus sp.
Rovereto 1914
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= Phugatherium cataclisticum
Ameghino 1887
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Deschamps et al. 2013 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Entre Rios |
Coordinates: | 27.1° South, 64.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 27.3° South, 62.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Altitude: | 260 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | *Local age/stage: | "Mesopotomian" |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Entre Rios | Member: | Mesopotamico | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Vertebrate fossils come from the lower part of the Entre Rios Formation, a complex succession of continental and marine sediments, called the Mesopotamico level. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: No clear lithostratigraphic units have been determined, fossils come from sedimentary complex with marine and continental components. | |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Geology comments: Alternating regression/transgression during emplacement of Pampeanas block |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Cheek teeth fragments preserved |
Metadata
Database number: | 13522 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Wertheim, C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-04-11 12:14:53 | Last modified: | 2012-05-03 10:09:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-11 12:14:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6124. | 5% 31960 | P. Bondesio. 1975. Restos de un Protohydrochoerinae (Rodentia, Hidrochoeridae) en el "Mesopotamiense" Plioceno Medio-Tardio) de las Barrancas del rio Parana (Provincia de Entre Rios, Argentina). Ameghiniana 12(3):253-258 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
12759 | F. Ameghino. 1891. Caracteres diagnosticos de cincuenta especies nuevas de mamiferos fosiles argentinos. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1(3):129-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12145 | G. Burmeister. 1871. On Saurocetes argentinus a new type of Zeuglodontidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)51-55 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
54852 | C. M. Deschamps, M. G. Vucetich, and C. I. M. A. Montalvo Zárate. 2013. Capybaras (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae, Hydrochoerinae) and their bearing in the calibration of the late Miocene-Pliocene sequences of South America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 48:145-158 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen] | |
17683 | A. Doering. 1882. Informe oficial de la Comisión científica agregada al Estado Mayor General de la expedición al Río Negro (Patagonia) realizada en los meses de Abril, Mayo y Junio de 1879, bajo las órdenes del General D. Julio A. Roca. III. Geología 299-530 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15250 | C. Rovereto. 1915. Nuevas investigaciones sobre los delfines longirrostros del mioceno del Paraná (República Argentina). Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 27:139-151 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |