CICYTTP   12500
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA Y DE TRANSFERENCIA TECNOLOGICA A LA PRODUCCION
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
The Tayassuidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Quaternary of Entre Rios province. A palaeofaunal review in Argentina
Autor/es:
GASPARINI GERMÁN; FERRERO BRENDA SOLEDAD
Revista:
NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN
Editorial:
E SCHWEIZERBARTSCHE VERLAGS
Referencias:
Año: 2010 vol. 256 p. 151 - 160
ISSN:
0077-7749
Resumen:
The Tayassuidae constitutes a faunistic element with large geographic distribution and stratigraphic representation during the Quaternary of South America. Three genera of Tayassuidae are recognized in South America: Platygonus, Catagonus and Tayassu. Argentina has the greatest diversity and abundance of fossils tayassuids of South America. In the Argentine Mesopotamian, the oldest tayassuids records come from the late Pleistocene of Corrientes and Entre Rios provinces, and from an archaeological site in the Holocene of Misiones province. This paper aims to: 1- describe the tayassuid material found in the Pleistocene in Entre Rios province; 2- review the paleontological record of the family in the Mesopotamian region during the Quaternary and update it; and 3- check the geographical and statigraphical distribution in South America, specially in Argentina, of those tayassuids found in the Mesopotamian region. The palaeontological record indicates that in the Mesopotamian region, Tayassu and Catagonus, this last one for the first time, are registered solely and essentially in sediments of the late Pleistocene. Furthermore, the record of Tayassu and Catagonus during the late Pleistocene in Entre Ríos province reflects a faunistic difference in comparison with actual mastofauna. Today, in the Mesopotamian region, T. pecari and T. tajacu comprise the mastofauna of the subtropical forests of the Misiones province. In the north of Corrientes province there is possibly the most austral registry of T. pecari. Catagonus reaches its most southern distribution in the north of Santiago del Estero and the northeast of Tucumán; therefore actually this tayassuid does not inhabit the Argentine Mesopotamian. <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->