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Punta Hermengo
Municipal Museum.
The
museum is situated in the Vivero Dunícola "Florentino Ameghino",
since 1977. The name "Punta Hermengo" is named after a geographic
feature on the coast, a few meters from the entrance of the nursery,
known since the XVIII Century. The museum is surrounded by a 5
hectare park, with beautiful acacias, cypresses and oaks. The museum
is composed of two areas, a historical-traditional area, and a
natural science area. In the first area there is a photographic
exhibition, a carriages exhibition and objects of the first
habitants of the zone.
The
natural science exhibit contains paleontological, geological and
zoological collections consisting of locally found objects. The
museum also has an important regional heritage listing that
continues growing with successive explorations, museum interchange
and donations. The museum is in charge of controlling local fossil
and archeological localities, protected by a Municipal Order since
1988.
The Museum’s activities are orientated towards education,
environment conservation and scientific investigation. The museum’s
function is to safeguard the patrimonial history and nature
of the region. On the 4th of November 1999, the Honorable
House of Representatives of the provincia de Buenos Aires
declared the museum’s collections as Legislative Interest. This Museum relates the
history of Punta Hermengo through photographs, carriages, objects
that belonged to the founders and their neighbors, etc. It also has
a Natural Sciences section, with exhibits on Regional Paleontology
(large fossils, Zoology, Geology and Archaeology.
A huge
burrow made by giant mammals for more
than half a million years, was presented
publicly by members of the Association
of Friends of the Municipal Museum of
Punta Hermengo the spa town of the
province of Buenos Aires.
Miramar, like other cities of Buenos
Aires coastline, is one of the few
places in the world where you can find
evidence of ancient caves made by giant
sloths, makes them more half a million
years, according to the bulletin
paleontological "Paleo" which was
published the news .
This
enormous burrow or shelter, paleontology
is known as "paleocueva.". It is
generally provided researchers found
small structures filled with sediment
attributed to prehistoric rodent or
armadillo. On this occasion, the big
surprise was the same as discovery. We
found a structure that was not cover
biogenetics completely by sediment, and
that did not suffer major changes in the
course of hundreds of millennia. Mariano
Magnussen Saffer, a member of the
Association of Friends of the
museum Native from Miramar, who was
noted the existence and origin of this huge den that housed
animals weighing more than a ton and a half, three meters long
and vegetarian diet."Due
to the age of the strata of the area that are north of Miramar,
the cave belongs to the Pleistocene, a geologic period that
began some two million years ago and ended ten thousand years
ago, and infer in this way , Which belong to the cave
Scelidotherium therefore marks
claws in roofs and walls of the same
anatomy and biomechanics reflect their
morphological, "said Daniel Boh,
director of the municipal museum. The
importance of this paleocueva, is that
they could access one of the main
chambers, whose tunnel has a diameter of
1.90 meters, with sections partially
covered with sediment side, with thin
layers of solidified mud deposited in
successive floods, the over several
millennia. Just a few meters, is another
gallery who report to the surface, and
that was covered by sediment in their
income, while preserving the interior in
its original form. The researchers were
able to walk on foot for this short
gallery, partially eroded, which
stretches about 10 metres and a diameter
of 1.7 meters.
What was surprising
observation marks claws on the sides and
roofs of the two forks of which were
recovered several molds. Scientists
assume that, by measures which owns the
cave and characteristics marks
excavation, the burrow was conducted by
a
Milodontino, possibly of the
genus Scelidotherium sp, a lazy
late prehistoric large and common
registration fosilífero in the region
Pampa, with the aim of shelter, care or
juvenile maintain control over
temperature and humidity of their
bodies.
But it also served as a refuge for a
carnivore, because there were a small
accumulation of bones bitten. The
discovery could provide new data on
climatic conditions at the time it was
built and anatomical data from animals
that dug, is another way to learn more
about how these animals lived, whose
information could not be retrieved from
its large bones. A curious and somewhat
related, was the discovery of another
paleocueva in 2004 (but without internal
structure), whose roof had collapsed.
From inside the museum's Native from
Miramar personnel recovered a skeleton
of 3 meters during Scelidotherium
leptocephalum, probably a female
adult, embracing her small farming. Part
of this material is on display.
