Río Rosario-Horcones: Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Caiman latirostris
Daudin 1801
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| MAS-PALEO-Rosario de la Frontera 001/ 2011 (skull, mandibles and postcrania) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Salta |
| Coordinates: | 25.7° South, 64.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.8° South, 64.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 1349 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Horcones | ||
| Database number: | 174226 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-05 10:11:20 | Last modified: | 2015-11-05 10:11:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-11-05 10:11:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56861. | F. Barrios. 2013. Presencia de Caiman latirostris (Daudin, 1802) (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) en la Formación Piquete (Plioceno–Pleistoceno temprano) de la Provincia de Salta, Argentina implicancias paleoambientales y sistemáticas. Ameghiniana 50(5):522-534 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |