AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-03-18DOI: 10.5710/1851-8044-58.1.72
Devapriya Chattopadhyay
{"title":"Actualistic Taphonomy in South America.","authors":"Devapriya Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.5710/1851-8044-58.1.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/1851-8044-58.1.72","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"72 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43946508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-02-28DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.20.08.2020.3376
P. Gallina, J. Canale, J. Carballido
{"title":"The Earliest Known Titanosaur Sauropod Dinosaur","authors":"P. Gallina, J. Canale, J. Carballido","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.20.08.2020.3376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.20.08.2020.3376","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The titanosaur sauropod record of Patagonia, mainly recovered from Upper Cretaceous strata, is probably the richest worldwide. Here we present a new sauropod dinosaur, Ninjatitan zapatai gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Bajada Colorada Formation (Berriasian–Valanginian) of north Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina), from which postcranial remains are preserved. The anatomical analysis and comparisons performed in this specimen evidence strong affinity with titanosaur sauropods. This assumption is corroborated with the inclusion of the new taxon in an updated phylogenetic data matrix. The cladistic analyses indicate that Ninjatitan could be considered the earliest known titanosaur sauropod. The combination of features such as the presence of procoelous anterior caudal centra, the pneumatized neural arch of anterior caudal vertebrae, and the posterodorsal border of the scapular acromion near the glenoid level supports its titanosaur affinities. The presence of a basal titanosaurian sauropod in the lowermost Cretaceous of Patagonia supports the hypothesis that the group was established in the Southern Hemisphere and reinforces the idea of a Gondwanan origin for Titanosauria. The Bajada Colorada sauropod fauna represents one of the most diverse and unique associations from the lowermost Cretaceous worldwide recorded.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"35 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41429267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-02-28DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.27.11.2020.3353
Vanessa Torres-Carro, D. Garcia-Lopez, P. Ortiz
{"title":"The Fossil Record of Camelids (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) in Tucumán Province, Northwestern Argentina","authors":"Vanessa Torres-Carro, D. Garcia-Lopez, P. Ortiz","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.27.11.2020.3353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.27.11.2020.3353","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The presence of fossil camelids in Tucumán, northwestern Argentina, has been recognized for many years but its relevance has not been fully evaluated so far. Here, we review previous mentions of fossil camelids for this province, present new material, and compare it with fossil and extant specimens of South American camelids, clarifying its taxonomic context and discussing its paleobiogeographic significance. For Tucumán we recognize Vicugna vicugna (Tafí del Valle Formation, late Pleistocene–early Holocene) and Palaeolama sp. (Tucumán Formation, late Pleistocene), mainly based on size and dental features. The current distribution of V. vicugna is restricted to the Central Andes, in the Puna and High Andean environments over 3200 m altitude; there is no mention, neither current nor historical, for Tucumán. Its presence at around 2200 m in the Tafí valley during the Quaternary indicates cooler and drier conditions than those currently established. The observations made in the context of this contribution allow us to establish that the species V. provicugna is a synonym of V. vicugna. In turn, we consider that the validity of the species Palaeolama hoffstetteri, only based on postcranial remains, should be properly evaluated in the future.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"52 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41827634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-02-28DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.28.09.2020.3355
Johana A. Fernández
{"title":"Revision of Botrychiopsis plantiana: A Key Species of the Gzhelian–Cisuralian in Westernmost Gondwana","authors":"Johana A. Fernández","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.28.09.2020.3355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.28.09.2020.3355","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Botrychiopsis is an important biostratigraphic index taxon for Carboniferous–early Permian plant fossil successions of Gondwana. Its species have wide geographic distributions, restricted chronostratigraphic ranges, and are associated with diverse groups of plant associations. They have been described from sedimentary sequences of Australia, India, South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina. A whole-frond reconstruction of Botrychiopsis plantiana is presented based on a study of very well preserved specimens from the Gangamopteris flora (Ghzelian–Asselian) of the Bajo de Véliz Formation (Paganzo Basin, Argentina). The material consists of impressions of complete fronds and basal fragments, which are rarely represented in the Gondwanan upper Paleozoic fossil record.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45337688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-02-28DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.01.09.2020.3371
Germán Barmak, L. Chornogubsky, L. Gaetano
{"title":"New Insights on Pachybiotherium illuminatum(Mammalia, Marsupialia, Microbiotheriidae) from the Early Miocene of the Pinturas Formation (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)","authors":"Germán Barmak, L. Chornogubsky, L. Gaetano","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.01.09.2020.3371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.01.09.2020.3371","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes two new materials corresponding to Pachybiotherium illuminatum, a microbiotheriid from Pinturas Formation (early Miocene, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) previously reported at the lower levels of the Formation on Portezuelo Sumich Sur, now recorded in lower levels of Portezuelo Sumich Norte and the possibly upper levels of Los Toldos Sur localities. The new specimens offer a better understanding of P. illuminatum upper molars morphology and, if the level assignation was correct, allow us to argue that 1) P. illuminatum is reported for the first time as appearing on a typical Santacrucian fauna; 2) the “Pinturan” and Santacrucian faunas at the Rio Pinturas localities are more similar than previously reported; 3) the biochron of the species is extended.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"66 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48643569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-02-28DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.26.06.2020.3354
D. Fernández, P. Martínez, L. Palazzesi, V. Barreda
{"title":"Mites (Acari, Oribatida, Nanhermannidae) from the Eocene of Patagonia: First Southern Hemisphere Fossil Record in Marine Sediments","authors":"D. Fernández, P. Martínez, L. Palazzesi, V. Barreda","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.26.06.2020.3354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.26.06.2020.3354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"58 1","pages":"61 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2021-01-07DOI: 10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.625
G. Hassan
{"title":"Advances in South American Micropaleontology. Selected Papers of the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress","authors":"G. Hassan","doi":"10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"57 1","pages":"625 - 626"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41680168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.30.07.2020.3368
R. Vezzosi, A. Rotti, Leonardo Dos Santos Avilla
{"title":"‘A Very Lazy Deer': Revision of the Cotype Of Nothropus carcaranensis (Mammalia, Xenarthra)","authors":"R. Vezzosi, A. Rotti, Leonardo Dos Santos Avilla","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.30.07.2020.3368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.30.07.2020.3368","url":null,"abstract":"Here it is reviewed the specimen MACN-Pv 12630, the cotype of the ground-sloth Nothrophus cararanensis Bordas, 1942, and proposed that it should be taxonomically relocated to the extinct deer Morenelaphus. The specimen in question is represented by a fragmentary braincase, that shares several features with Cervidae and, more detailed with Morenelaphus. Besides antler morphology, this contribution shows that basicranium attributes are also very important to elucidate taxonomical affinities within South American Cervidae.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"57 1","pages":"616 - 622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42576599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.623
A. Mancuso
{"title":"The Late Triassic World. Earth in a Time of Transition","authors":"A. Mancuso","doi":"10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/1851-8044-57.6.623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"57 1","pages":"623 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45528013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmeghinianaPub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.23.06.2020.3333
M. E. P. Batista, L. Kunzmann, A. Sá, A. Saraiva, M. I. Loiola
{"title":"A New Species of Brachyphyllum from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Brazil","authors":"M. E. P. Batista, L. Kunzmann, A. Sá, A. Saraiva, M. I. Loiola","doi":"10.5710/AMGH.23.06.2020.3333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.23.06.2020.3333","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The Araripe Basin, located in the Northeast of Brazil, contains many fossils. Among these, the gymnosperms stand out, especially species of the fossil taxon Brachyphyllum. It encompasses conifer shoots with helically arranged scale-like, adpressed leaves whose length does not exceed the width. This foliage morphotype was widely distributed during the Mesozoic, and species accommodated in this genus can be attributed to different families if their anatomical characters are taken into consideration. In the Araripe basin, specifically in the Crato and Romualdo formations, Brachyphyllum obesum is frequently found and was attributed to the family Araucariaceae based on leaf epidermal and xylem characters. In this work, we describe a new species from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Brachyphyllum sattlerae sp. nov., based on the following morphological and anatomical features: sub-main shoots with lateral branches oppositely disposed and almost exclusively decussately arranged leaves; scarious leaf margins; rugose abaxial leaf surfaces; non-papillate epidermal cells; stomata distributed in longitudinal rows except close to the leaf margins and scarce at the leaf base; stomatal openings obliquely oriented; and hypodermis with a sinuous pattern around the substomatal chamber. Some of these features are distinctive of Araucariaceae, which indicates that B. sattlerae sp. nov. also belongs to this family.","PeriodicalId":50819,"journal":{"name":"Ameghiniana","volume":"57 1","pages":"519 - 533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46164498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}