Quaternary of South America and Antarctica Peninsula 1998
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Quaternary of South America and Antarctica Peninsula 1998

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Quaternary of South America and Antarctica Peninsula 1998

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This text deals with certain geological aspects of the extreme geographical locations of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Topics include: Brazil - geology and vertebrate paleontology; pleistocene wave-built terraces of Northern Rio de Janeiro state; and holocene coastal evolution.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781351420228
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Civil Engineering

1

The presence of Neochoerus Hay, 1926 (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae) in Pleistocenic sediments of Southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

CECILIA M. DESCHAMPS
Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas (CIC) & Departamento Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
ABSTRACT: An almost complete skull of Neochoerus sp. (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae) from Bajo San José (lat. 38°34′S, southwestern Buenos Aires province, Argentina) is described. The bearing unit is considered of Ensenadan Land-Mammal Age (Early-Middle Pleistocene). This is the record of highest latitude of the genus, and of the Family Hydrochoeridae since the end of the Pliocene. Bajo San José is placed in the border between two zoogeographic subregions. The presence of Neochoerus at this latitude can be taken as an example of the historical dynamism of the Pampasic fauna during the Quaternary, which was signed by the strong climatic changes characteristic of the Pleistocene. The accompanying fauna is conformed by genera or species inhabiting today under either more humid and temperate conditions or more arid ones than those of the area of Bajo San José. The former may suggest more arid conditions than today for this area, and the latter, may either be relict forms of more humid and warmer prior conditions, or indicate environmental changes towards higher temperature and humidity which favoured their southern dispersion along rivers and streams.
RESUMEN: Se describe un cráneo casi completo de Neochoerus sp. (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae), hallado en Bajo San José (lat. 38°34′S, sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). La unidad portadora es considerada de Edad Ensenadense (Pleistoceno temprano-medio). Este es el registro más austral del género y de la Familia Hydrochoeridae desde el fin del Plioceno. Bajo San José está ubicado en el límite entre dos subregiones zoogeográficas. La presencia de Neochoerus en esta latitud puede tomarse como un ejemplo del dinamismo histórico de la fauna pampásica durante el Cuaternario, caracterizado por los grandes cambios climáticos del Pleistoceno. La fauna acompañante está compuesta por géneros o especies que habitan en la actualidad zonas más áridas o más húmedas y templadas que las del área de Bajo San José. Las primeras pueden sugerir condiciones más áridas que las actuales de esta zona, y las últimas, pueden ser tanto formas relictuales de condiciones más húmedas y cálidas previas, como indicar cambios ambientales hacia condiciones de mayor temperatura y humedad que habrían favorecido su dispersión hacia el sur a lo largo de ríos o arroyos.

1 INTRODUCTION

New remains of Neochoerus are described in this paper, coming from Bajo San José (Coronel Pringles county, Southwestern Buenos Aires province, Argentina). A preliminary list of the fossil fauna found in this locality was published by Deschamps & Borromei (1992); fish remains were studied by Cione & Lopez Arbarello (1993), and the sigmodontine rodents by Pardinas & Deschamps (1996). The fossil-bearing unit outcrops at both margins of the Sauce Grande river, being the best site a gravel quarry located near the bridge of the National Route 51 over this river (lat. 38°34′ S, long. 61°41′ W), 51 km northeast of the city of Bahia Blanca (Fig. 1). The geological setting has been discussed in Borromei (1989) and Deschamps & Borromei (1992), in whose papers the entire sequence was attributed to a Pleistocene deposit originated by a gravelly braided stream system. Deschamps (1995) assigned this deposit to the Ensenadan (Early-Middle Pleistocene) Land-Mammal Age (Pascual et al. 1965, Cione & Tonni 1995).
Figure 1. Location map.

2 MATERIAL AND METHODS

The fossil material herein described has been compared with skulls of Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (‘carpincho’): MLP 650, MLP 1406, MLP 14-IX-55-1 and MLP 18-VIII-92–16 from the Departamento de Zoología Vertebrados, 43 and 427 from the Departamento de Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, and with the following fossil specimens from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’ (MACN), Buenos Aires, of related genera: MACN: 16688, 5302, 5313, 587 and 588.
The ontogenetic stage of this specimen was estimated following Mones (1991: 96, Fig. 12) who proposed five classes of ages (Ages 0–4) taking into account the ossifying sequence of the basicranium.

3 SYSTEMATICS

Family HYDROCHOERIDAE Gray, 1825
Subfamily HYDROCHOERINAE Gray, 1825
Genus Neochoerus Hay, 1926 Neochoerus sp. (Fig. 2 A, B, C)
Material: UNSGH (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Geología Histórica) 645: part of the skull with right P4-M3 and left M3.
Description: It is a very well preserved skull, though without the rostrum and part of the zygomatic arches. It is a young specimen of age 2 since its exoccipital-basioccipital and basisphenoid-presphenoid (Ages 1 and 2) sutures are ossified, but not its exoccipital-supraoccipital and basioccipital-basisphenoid ones (Ages 3 and 4 respectively). Its size is approximately 20% larger than that of the single living species and genus Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (see Table 1). Consequently, it can be accepted that when adult, it could have reached the size of the species of the genus Neochoerus, that is, a third to half larger than the living species.
Figure 2. Skull of Neochoerus sp. UNSGH 645. a) Upper view.
Figure 2. b) Lateral view, c) Lower view. Scale: 5 cm.
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Table 1. Measurements (in mm) and distribution of Neochoerus sp. and related species.
Neochoerus sp. UNSGH 645
H. crespoi MACN-16688
H. dasseni MACN-5302
N. tarijensis MACN 587–588
H. hydrochaeris (six skulls)

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. 1 The presence of Neochoerus Hay, 1926 (Rodentia, Hydrochoeridae) in Pleistocenic sediments of Southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
  7. 2 Radiocarbon Chronology of Paso Otero 1 in the Pampean Region of Argentina
  8. 3 The Late Quaternary of the Upper Juruá River, Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil: Geology and Vertebrate Palaeontology
  9. 4 Determination of water palaeotemperature in the Beagle Channel (Argentina) during the last 6000 yr through stable isotope composition of Mytilus edulis shells
  10. 5 Holocene palaeoenvironments of the northern coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, reconstructed from palynology of Tramandai lagoon sediments
  11. 6 Evidence of a forest free landscape under dry and cold climatic conditions during the last glacial maximum in the Botucatú region (São Paulo State), Southeastern Brazil
  12. 7 Chronostratigraphic and Palynozone chronosequence charts of Napostá Grande Creek, Southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
  13. 8 Palaeoenvironmental implications of a Holocene diatomite, Pampa Interserrana, Argentina
  14. 9 Southernmost South America climate and glaciers in the 16th century through the observations of Spanish navigators
  15. 10 Magnetic measurements used for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Pampean loess and soils
  16. 11 Magnetic properties and environmental conditions: Study of a palaeosol of the Chaco-Pampean plain (Argentina)
  17. 12 New evidence of the Brunhes/Matuyama polarity boundary in the Hernández-Gorina Quarries, north-west of the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
  18. Selected papers of COLACMAR 95
  19. Foreword
  20. 13 Pleistocene wave-built terraces of Northern Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
  21. 14 Holocene coastal evolution of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
  22. 15 Holocene coastal evolution in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  23. 16 Holocene coastal evolution in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

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