PBDB Collection

Pozuelos salt flat, Quebrada El Paso (Eocene of Argentina)

Also known as Salar de Pastos Grandes

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.5° S, 66.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.1° S, 57.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mustersan mammal zone, middle Member (Geste Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Powell et al., 2011: Recently, geologic and paleontologic evidence allowed the correlation of the upper levels of Lumbrera with Geste, Casa Grande, and Quebrada de los Colorados Formations. Additionally, these levels were referred to the late-middle Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA -South American Land Mammal Age-, Barrancan subage) by an U/Pb dating of 39.9 Ma . The lower levels of the Lumbrera Formation are here referred to the Vacan subage of the Casamayoran SALMA.

•DeCelles et al. 2007 obtained a Priabonian age for the fossiliferous levels of the Geste Formation. These levels were previosuly assigned a middle Eocene age based on faunal comparisons in Patagonia.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: MHAS: Museo del Hombre de Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca, Argentina

Primary reference: R. Pascual. 1983. Novedosos marsupiales paleógenos de la Formación Pozuelos (Grupo Pastos Grandes) de la Puna, Salta, Argentina. Ameghiniana 20:265-286 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175809: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.01.2016, edited by Philip Mannion and Jelle Zijlstra

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Polydolopimorphia - Prepidolopidae	"Prepidolops alonsoi n. sp." = Punadolops alonsoi "Prepidolops alonsoi n. sp." = Punadolops alonsoi Pascual 1983 metatherian MLP 81-XI-15-1 (Fig. 2), a fragment of right maxilla with complete P3-M2
Polydolopimorphia - Glasbiidae	Reigia punae n. gen. n. sp. Reigia punae n. gen. n. sp. Pascual 1983 metatherian MLP 81-XI-15-2
Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae	Punahyrax bondesioi⁴ Punahyrax bondesioi⁴ Reguero et al. 2008 notoungulate MLP 81-XI-15-4, right M2; MLP 83-XI-3-1, left M1, broken labially; MLP 83-XI-3-4, right M1 (broken); MLP 83-XI-3-5, left M1 (broken); MLP 83-XI-3-6, left M1
Notoungulata - Interatheriidae	Punapithecus minor² Punapithecus minor² López and Bond 1995 notoungulate MLP 83-10-31-1
Cingulata - Dasypodidae	Dasypodidae "n. gen."³, cf. Utaetus sp.³, Prostegotherium sp.³, cf. Astegotherium sp.¹, Parutaetus punaensis n. sp.¹, Pucatherium parvum¹ Dasypodidae "n. gen."³ Gray 1821 armadillo cf. Utaetus sp.³ Ameghino 1902 armadillo Prostegotherium sp.³ Ameghino 1902 armadillo cf. Astegotherium sp.¹ Ameghino 1902 armadillo MHAS 067 Parutaetus punaensis n. sp.¹ Ciancio et al. 2016 armadillo MLP 83-XI-3-2 - type Pucatherium parvum¹ Herrera et al. 2012 armadillo MLP 81-XI-15-3

¹Ciancio et al. 2016; ²López and Bond 1995; ³Powell et al. 2011; ⁴Reguero et al. 2008