Nuevos restos de ciervos (Cervidae, Mammalia) para el Pleistoceno de la Región Pampeana (Argentina): consideraciones paleobiogeográficas y paleoecológicas

CHIMENTO, NICOLÁS ROBERTO; BERBACH, LORENA; ZUCCARI, JOSÉ IGNACIO; MARCHETTO, JOSÉ MARÍA

REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

SOC BRASILEIRA PALEONTOLOGIA

Año: 2019 vol. 22 p. 67 - 85

1519-7530

Cervidae are an Artiodactyla family that entered South America in the Pleistocene,during the event known as ?Great American Biotic Exchange?. In the Argentinean Quaternary the genera Antifer, Epieuryceros, Morenelaphusand Paraceros, all extinct in the Late Pleistocene, are recognized along with the genera Hippocamelus, Pudu, Blastoceros, Ozotoceros andMazama, present inhabitants of the South American territory, and some of which are represented also in Pleistocene times. The aim of thiswork is to present and describe new fossil deer remains from different Pleistocene localities in Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) and to makesome geographical and environmental considerations. The southernmost record of the genus Morenelaphus and the species M. lujanensisis here presented, coming from Punta Alta locality, and the first female specimen assigned to Morenelaphus sp is described, as well as newmaterials with the same assignment for the localities of Junín and Paraje 7 Bridges, Sauce Grande river valley. New remains of Antifersp, from San Bernardo locality, and Hippocamelus sulcatus from Junín locality are disclosed. The first Pleistocene record of Ozotocerosbezoarticus is presented for the Buenos Aires Province, coming from the Junín locality.