Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (14.1° S, 48.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.1° S, 48.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. O. Salles, G. S. Carvalho, M. Weksler, F. L. Sicuro, F. Abreu, A. R. Camardella, P. G. Guedes, L. S. Avilla, E. A. P. Abrantes, V. Sahate, and I. S. A. Costa. 1999. Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil). Publicações Avulsas do Museu Nacional 78:1-15 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211822: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 28.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Didelphidae indet. opossum
Monodelphis domestica Wagner 1842 gray short-tailed opposum | |
Dasypus sp., "Dasypus septemcinctus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus
Dasypus sp. Linnaeus 1758 armadillo
"Dasypus septemcinctus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus Linnaeus 1758 seven-banded armadillo | |
Oryzomys sp., "Bolomys lasiurus" = Necromys
Oryzomys sp. Baird 1857 rice rat
"Bolomys lasiurus" = Necromys bolo mouse | |
Dasyprocta sp. Illiger 1811 agouti | |
"Agouti paca" = Cuniculus paca
"Agouti paca" = Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca | |
Proechimys sp. Allen 1899 spiny rat | |
Thrichomys apereoides punaré |