Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina (37.8° S, 58.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• there are seven stratigraphic levels, and occupation 1
•occupation 1 is associated with C14 dates on bone of 10045 +/- 95 and 10375 +/- 90 ybp
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Collected by Mazanti
Collection methods: quarrying,
• there are 18,233 identified specimens in the entire cave sequence
Primary reference: D. L. Mazzanti and C. A. Quintana. 1997. Asociación cultural con fauna extinguida en el sitio arqueologico Cueva Tixi, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revista Espanola de Anthropologia Americana 27:11-21 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 73845: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Dasypus hybridus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) hybridus, Zaedyus pichiy, Chaetophractus villosus, Eutatus seguini
"Dasypus hybridus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) hybridus Desmarest 1804 southern long-nosed armadillo | |
"Felis concolor" = Puma concolor
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Ozotoceros bezoarticus Linné 1758 Pampas deer | |
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Myocastor coipus spiny rat | |
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