Middle Eocene marsupials from Antofagasta de la Sierra, Northwestern Argentina

被引:34
作者
Goin, FJ [1 ]
Candela, A [1 ]
Lopez, G [1 ]
机构
[1] Dept Paleontol Vertebrados, Museo La Plata, RA-1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
关键词
Marsupialia; Sparassodonta; Polydolopimorphia; eocene; Argentina; South America;
D O I
10.1016/S0016-6995(98)80098-3
中图分类号
Q91 [古生物学];
学科分类号
0709 ; 070903 ;
摘要
New fossil marsupials from Paleogene levels at Antofagasta de la Sierra, in Northwestern Argentina, are described: Punadolops nov. gen. (Prepidolopidae), represented by a single species, P. alonsoi (PASCUAL, 1983), Bonapartherium serrensis nov. sp. (Bonapartheriidae), and an isolated lower molar tentatively assigned to Arminiheringia sp. (Proborhyaenidae). Marsupials from Antofagasta de la Sierra show only minor differences with respect to other Paleogene marsupial assemblages from Northwestern Argentina. On the contrary, all of them markedly differ with Patagonian marsupials of equivalent age. A review of the mammalian taxa recovered at this locality, together with its stratigraphic situation, led us to tentatively assign these levels to a Mustersan (Middle Eocene) age.
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页码:75 / 85
页数:11
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