Los Quiroga
Basic information
Sample name: Los Quiroga

Reference: N. R. Chimento and F. L. Agnolin. 2011. Mamíferos del Pleistoceno superior de Santiago del Estero (Argentina) y sus afinidades paleobiogeogrâficas. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51(6):83-100 [ER 3404]
Geography
Country: Argentina

State: Santiago del Estero


Coordinate: -27.65° S, -64.37° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Ma: 0.0199

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: a C14 date of 19,900 +/- 120 ybp on the sediments (material not indicated) was reported by Alberdi et al. (2008) (presumed to be uncalibrated because the errors is symmetrically distributed)

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: from an alluvial terrace of the Río Dulce that averages 30 m and consists principally of coarse sands with intercalations of fine sand and loess

Methods
Life forms: ungulates,other large mammals

Sample size: 14 specimens

Sampling comments: collection methods not discussed

Metadata
Sample number: 3786

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-09 18:57:27

Modified: 2023-04-03 09:02:57

Abundance distribution
7 species
4 singletons
total count 14
extrapolated richness: 23.5
Fisher's α: 5.571
geometric series k: 0.7937
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7912
Shannon's H: 1.7721
Good's u: 0.7143
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Holmesina paulacoutoi1
Panochthus greslebini1
plus one indeterminate glyptodontid specimen
Scelidotheriinae indet.1
Megatherium sp.3
Toxodon gracilis3
plus two indeterminate Toxodon specimens
Mixotoxodon larensis1
Notiomastodon platensis4
"Stegomastodon platensis"