IANIGLA   20881
INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGIA, GLACIOLOGIA Y CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Présentation préliminaire de deux nouveaux paresseux terrestres (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) du Néogène de l’Altiplano bolivien
Autor/es:
PIERRE-ANTOINE, ST-ANDRÉ; FRANÇOIS, PUJOS; GERARDO, DE IULIIS; CASTÓR, CARTELLE; TIMOTHY J., GAUDIN; H. GREGORY, MCDONALD; BERNARDINO, MAMANI QUISPE
Revista:
Geodiversitas
Editorial:
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris
Referencias:
Lugar: Paris; Año: 2008
ISSN:
1280-9659
Resumen:
Two new Mylodontinae (Xenarthra: Tardigrada: Mylodontoidea) from the Bolivian Altiplano are described. One of them, Pleurolestodon dalenzae n. sp., was discovered a few meters below a volcanic tuff, Toba 76, that may be used as a reference stratigraphic level and is dated at 5.4 Ma; it could be Huayquerian (late Miocene) or at the youngest Huayquerian-Montehermosan boundary in age. The other taxon, Simomylodon uccasamamensis n. gen. n. sp., was recovered from many localities of a horizon bounded below by Toba 76 and above by another volcanic level, the 2.8 Ma Ayo Ayo tuff; its age is Montehermosan-Chapadmalalan (early and middle Pliocene). Analysis of these taxa indicates that they are Mylodontidae more closely related to Glossotherium, Glossotheridium, Kiyumylodon and Paramylodon than to Lestodon or Thinobadistes.