Monte Hermoso Beach (Pleistocene of Argentina)

Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (39.0° S, 61.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• other age:Late Pleistocene

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• outcrop is about 200 m by 50 m and fossiliferous interval is about 0.60 m thick, consisting of "friable sand silt-clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: S. A. Aramayo. 1985. A late Pleistocene continental palaeoenvironment at the present shoreline, Monte Hermoso Beach (Buenos Aires Province), Argentina. In J. Rabassa (ed.), Quaternary of South America and Antarctic Peninsula 3:207-219 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71314: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.02.1999

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Taxonomic list

• birds and ichnofossils also present
Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837 notoungulate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon
Doedicurus sp. Burmeister 1874 glyptodon
Panochthus tuberculatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Tolypeutes sp. Illiger 1811 three-banded armadillo
Zaedyus cf. pichiy Desmarest 1804 pichi
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate
Mylodontinae indet. Gill 1872 edentate
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
subgenus Amerhippus
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary
"Dicotyles tajacu"
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Lama guanicoe Müller 1776 guanaco
"Lama glama guanicoe"
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus maximus Desmarest 1817 plains viscacha