Late early Miocene mammals from Laguna del Laja, Cura-Mallin Formation, south-central Chile (-37 degrees S) and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103544" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103544</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Late early Miocene mammals from Laguna del Laja, Cura-Mallin Formation, south-central Chile (-37 degrees S) and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance

Original language description

Despite recent efforts, the diversity of Neogene mammals in Chile remains poorly known, with several presumed new taxa awaiting description. For example, previous studies have suggested that the early to late Miocene mammalian assemblages from the Laguna del Laja fossiliferous locality (Cura-Mallin and Trapa-Trapa formations), in the Andean Cordillera of south-central Chile (-37 degrees), comprise dozens of undescribed taxa. Therefore, a better understanding of the Laguna del Laja faunal taxonomic affinities is needed, especially because the region holds one of the few known localities spanning from early to late Miocene in Chile. Dozens of mammal specimens recently recovered in late early Miocene beds of the Cura-Mallin Formation at Laguna del Laja are described and illustrated, and a discussion of their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance is provided. We recognize the presence of at least 17 taxa, including some potential new ones (e.g., Maruchito sp. nov.?) and others recognized in Chile for the first time (e.g., Galileomys). Geochronological (17.7-16.4 Ma) and biostratigraphical data indicate that this fauna correlates well with the Santacrucian SALMA, contributing to filling the gap in the taxonomic composition of Santacrucian mammalian assemblages in Chile and southwestern of South America. However, it is noteworthy that Laguna del Laja has documented some taxa previously found only in older (Colhuehuapian) and younger (Colloncuran) ages. Finally, the faunal assemblage supports a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of mixed forested and open habitats, likely with the predominance of the former, in the region during the late early Miocene and a widely distributed Santacrucian fauna throughout southern South America in both intra-arc and foreland basins.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

ISSN

0895-9811

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

112

Issue of the periodical within the volume

DEC 2021

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000701730200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114173306