Chasicoan

The Chasicoan (Spanish: Chasiquense or Spanish: Chasicoense) age is a period of geologic time from 10–9 Ma within the Late Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. It follows the Mayoan and precedes the Huayquerian age.^[1]

Etymology

The Chasicoan is named after the Arroyo Chasicó Formation of the Colorado Basin in northeastern Argentina.

Formations

Formation bold is type	Country	Basin	Notes
Arroyo Chasicó Formation	Argentina	Colorado Basin	[2]
Bahía Inglesa Formation	Chile	Caldera Basin	[3]
Caujarao Formation	Venezuela	Falcón Basin	[4]
Cerro Azul Formation	Argentina	Colorado Basin	[2][5][6]
Coquimbo Formation	Chile	Tongoy Bay	[7]
Loma de Las Tapias Formation	Argentina	Tulum Valley	[8]
Madre de Dios Formation	Peru	Madre de Dios Basin	[9]
Mauri Formation	Bolivia	Altiplano Basin	[10]
Navidad Formation	Chile	Chilean Coast Range	[11]
Puerto Madryn Formation	Argentina	Valdés Basin	[12]
Paraná Formation	Argentina	Paraná Basin	[13]
Pebas Formation	Brazil  Colombia  Ecuador  Peru	Amazon Basin	[14][15]
Pisco Formation	Peru	Pisco Basin	[16]
Urumaco Formation	Venezuela	Falcón Basin	[17]

Fossil content

Group	Fossils	Formation	Notes
Mammals	Cardiatherium chasicoense, Cardiomys leufuensis, Chasicobradys intermedius, Chasicostylus castroi, Chasicotatus ameghinoi, Epipeltephilus kanti, Lagostomus telenkechanum, Lycopsis viverensis, Paedotherium minor, Pisanodon nazari, Protomegalonyx chasicoensis, Pseudolycopsis cabrerai, Vetelia perforata, Kraglievichia sp., Orthomyctera sp., ?Parodimys sp., Proeuphractus sp., ?Tetrastylus sp., Typotheriopsis sp., Hegetotheriinae indet., Hoplophorini indet., Palaehoplophorini indet., Plohophorini indet., Proterotheriinae indet.	Arroyo Chasicó	[18][19] [20] [21][22] [23][24]
	Chasichimys bonaerense, Chasicotatus ameghinoi, Macrochorobates scalabrinii	Cerro Azul	[25]
	Cardiatherium chasicoense, Contrerascynus borhyaenoides	Loma de las Tapias	[26] [27][28]
	Notiomastodon sp.	Madre de Dios	[29]
	Bolivartherium urumaquensis, Bounodus enigmaticus, Ischyrorhynchus cf. vanbenedeni, Pseudoprepotherium urumaquensis, Urumaquia robusta, Gyrinodon sp., Neoepiblema sp., Potamarchus sp., Ribodon sp., Saurocetes sp.	Urumaco	[30][31] [32][33] [34][35] [36]
Birds	Psilopterus colzecus	Arroyo Chasicó	[24]
	Leptoptilos patagonicus	Puerto Madryn	[37]
Reptiles & amphibians	Carlesia cf. pendolai, Anura indet., Testudines indet.	Arroyo Chasicó	[24]
	Bairdemys venezuelensis, Caiman brevirostris, C. wannlangstoni, Charactosuchus mendesi, Globidentosuchus brachyrostris, Gryposuchus croizati, G. jessei, G. cf. pachakamue, Hesperogavialis cruxenti, Ikanogavialis gameroi, Melanosuchus fisheri, Mourasuchus arendsi, Purussaurus mirandai, Boinae indet.	Urumaco	[30][35] [36][38] [39][40] [41]
Fishes	Megalodon, Hemipristis serra, Carcharhinus sp., Galeocerdo sp., Rhinoptera sp., Sphyrna sp.	Caujarao	[42]
	Ariidae indet., Carcharhinidae indet., Dasyatidae indet., Hemigaleidae indet., Heterodontidae indet., Lamnidae indet., Myliobatidae indet., Odontaspididae indet., Otodontidae indet., Physeteroidea indet., Rajidae indet., Sciaenidae indet., Sparidae indet., Sphyrnidae indet., Squatinidae indet.	Paraná	[43]
	Megalodon, Arius couma, A. dowii, A. herzbergii, A. kessleri, A. quadriscutis, A. rugispinis, Bagre marinus, Carcharhinus caquetius, Epinephelus itajara, Galeocerdo cuvier, Hemipristis serra, Larimus henrii, L. steurbautti, Micropogonias coatesi, Phractocephalus nassi, Pristis pectinata, Carcharhinus sp., Cynoscion sp., Dasyatis sp., Equetus sp., Haemulon sp., Nebris sp., Rhinoptera sp., Sphyrna sp.	Urumaco	[44][30]

References

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Arroyo Chasicó Formation

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Bahía Inglesa Formation

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Caujarao Formation

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Cerro Azul Formation

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Coquimbo Formation

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Loma de Las Tapias Formation

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Madre de Dios Formation

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Mauri Formation

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Navidad Formation

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Palo Pintado Formation

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Paraná Formation

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Pebas Formation

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Pisco Formation

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Puerto Madryn Formation

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Urumaco Formation

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• Rincón, Ascanio D.; H. Gregory McDonald; Andrés Solórzano; Mónica Núñez Flores, and Damián Ruiz Ramoni. 2015. A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America. Royal Society Open Science 2(2). 140256. Accessed 2019-02-13.