Plohophorini Glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Cingulata) From the Late Neogene of Northwestern Argentina. Insight Into Their Diversity, Evolutionary History, and Paleobiogeography

Author:

Núñez-Blasco Alizia1,Zurita Alfredo E.1,Bonini Ricardo2,Miño-Boilini Angel R.1,Quiñones Sofia I.1,Toriño Pablo3,Zamorano Martín4,Georgieff Sergio M.5

Affiliation:

1. Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL-CONICET)

2. Instituto de investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano (INCUAPA-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

3. Instituto de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, 11400

4. División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Paseo del Bosque s/n. Código postal 1900. La Plata. CONICET.

5. IESGLO, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, T4000JFE y CONICET, CCT NOA Sur, San Miguel de Tucumán

Abstract

Abstract Northwestern Argentina (NWA) contains, together with the Pampean region (PR), one of the most complete late Neogene continental sequences, in which a great diversity of palaeofauna was recognized, among which glyptodonts stand out. Recent evidence suggests that the Late Miocene was a period of extra-Patagonian diversification in southern South America for glyptodonts, perhaps stimulated by the expansion of C4 grasses and open environments (known as “Edad de las Planicies Australes”). Here we focus on one of the most poorly known glyptodonts of NWA, the Plohophorini, from the Villavil-Quillay basin (Catamarca Province). Our results show that, like other clades (e.g., Doedicurini), a single species can be recognized, Stromaphorus ameghini (Ameghino, 1889; ex Moreno, 1882), whose stratigraphic record spans from the latest Miocene to the Pliocene (ca. 7.14–3.3 Ma; Messinian-Zanclean). Cladistic analysis confirms the status of natural group of the tribe Plohophorini within Hoplophorinae (“austral clade”), in which S. ameghini appears as the sister species of the Pampean species S. trouessarti (Moreno, 1888) nov. comb. The oldest precise records of S. ameghini (ca. 7.14 Ma) provide a minimum age for the Plohophorini lineage. The evidence suggests that the diversity of glyptodonts from the late Neogene of NWA is composed of endemic species, different from those of the PR, although both areas share the same genera, as observed in other mammalian clades such as Hegetotheriidae and Dasypodidae. Finally, the cladistic analysis reveals, in a broader context, that the spine-like structure observed in the caudal tube of some genera (ie, Nopachtus, Propanochthus, and Panochthus) is a homologous structure rather than a convergence as usually interpreted. On the contrary, the similar appearance of the ornamentation pattern represented by the multiplication of peripheral figures in the carapaces of the genera Stromaphorus and Nopachtus is, in fact, a convergence.

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