Estancia La Costa: Santacrucian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sparassodonta
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Sipalocyon gracilis
Ameghino 1887
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Cladosictis patagonica
Ameghino 1887
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Lycopsis torresi
Cabrera 1927
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Acrocyon sectorius
Ameghino 1887
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Nematherium sp.
Ameghino 1887
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Mammalia
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Pelecyodon cristatus
Ameghino 1891
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Hapalops informal sp. 1
Ameghino 1887
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Hapalops informal sp. 2
Ameghino 1887
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Eucholoeops fronto
Ameghino 1891
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Mammalia
- Myrmecophagidae
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Protamandua rothi
Ameghino 1904
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Chlamyphoridae
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Prozaedyus proximus
(Ameghino 1887)
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Proeutatus oenophorus
(Ameghino 1887)
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| recombined as Proeutatus oenophorum | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
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Peltephilus pumilus
Ameghino 1887
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Homunculidae
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Homunculus patagonicus
Ameghino 1891
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Mammalia
- Astrapotheria
- Astrapotheriidae
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? Astrapotherium magnum
(Owen 1853)
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Interatheriidae
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Protypotherium australe
(Moreno 1882)
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Interatherium extensus
Fernández et al. 2023
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Interatherium robustum
Ameghino 1891
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| synonym of Interatherium extensus | ||||||||||
| MPM-PV 3469, cranium, mandible, ulna | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Adinotherium ovinum
(Owen 1846)
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| MPM-PV 3668, cranium, mandible, from "arcillas below FL 2" | ||||||||||
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Nesodon imbricatus
Owen 1846
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° South, 69.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.8° South, 63.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Santacrucian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 17.40000 - 16.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Cruz |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176581 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Zijlstra, J. Carrillo | Enterer: | J. Zijlstra, K. Pino |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 27313 | ||
| Collections that are a subset of this one: | |||
| Created: | 2016-02-17 22:05:46 | Last modified: | 2020-07-21 01:36:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-17 22:05:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58167. | S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, and M. S. Bargo. 2012. Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late Early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 1-22 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |
Secondary references:
| 58224 | G. H. Cassini, E. Cerdeño, A. L. Villafañe and N. A. Muñoz. 2012. Paleobiology of Santacrucian native ungulates (Meridiungulata: Astrapotheria, Litoptera and Notoungulata). In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 243-286 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 84949 | M. Fernández, J. C. Fernicola, and E. Cerdeño. 2023. Systematic Revision of Interatherium and Icochilus (Interatheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Santa Cruz Formation (Early To Middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 60(3):236-258 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino] | |
| 58227 | R. F. Kay, S. F. Vizcaíno, and M. S. Bargo. 2012. A review of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation. In S. F. Vizcaíno, R. F. Kay, M. S. Bargo (eds.), Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia: High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation 331-365 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 58233 | H. G. McDonald, S. F. Vizcaíno, and M. S. Bargo. 2008. Skeletal anatomy and the fossil history of the Vermilingua. In S. F. Vizcaíno, W. J. Loughry (eds.), The Biology of the Xenarthra 64-78 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |