BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC REASSIGNMENT OF THE NEOGENE CAENOLESTINES (MARSUPIALIA) OF THE PAMPEAN REGION: THE CASE OF PLIOLESTES TRIPOTAMICUS REIG, 1955
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https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.29.06.2017.243Keywords:
Huayquerian, Montehermosan, Chapadmalalan, Quequén Salado River, Buenos Aires Province, PliolestesAbstract
The stratigraphic reinterpretation of a controversial paleontological site such as the Quequén Salado River banks allowed refinement of the biochron of the caenolestine marsupial Pliolestes tripotamicus Reig. Two fossil bearing units were proposed for these exposures: a lower one, AUA (Huayquerian) and an upper one, AUB (Montehermosan). P. tripotamicus is found in AUA, but not in AUB or in typical Montehermosan and Chapadmalalan localities, which suggests that this taxon was not part of the Montehermosan–Chapadmalalan assemblages. The other species, P. venetus Goin et al. (Huayquerian), and Caenolestidae n. sp. aff. P. tripotamicus (Chasicoan) indicate the genus was restricted to the Chasicoan–Huayquerian stages/ages. The retraction of the caenolestines toward the Andean Region (where they live today) would have taken place at the beginning of the Pliocene, probably more related to environmental changes than to competence with cricetid rodents as first proposed.
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