Also known as QuaraĆ River
Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (30.4° S, 56.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 56.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. Paula Couto. 1944. Sobre a presenca dos generos Hippidion e Toxodon Owen, no Pleistoceno do Rio Grande do Sul. Boletim do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 2:1-7 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28519: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 18.02.2003, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Toxodon sp. Owen 1837 notoungulate | |
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839 glyptodon | |
Megatherium sp. Cuvier 1796 edentate | |
Lestodon sp. Gervais 1855 edentate | |
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Linnaeus 1766 capybara |