Santa Vitoria do Palmar (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Brazil (33.5° S, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 53.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Santa Vitória Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• formerly the Graxaim Formation. Updated to Santa Vitória Formation by Pereira Lopes et al. 2021.

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: F. L. Souza-Cunha and G. W. A. Nunan. 1980. Pleistocenic marine vertebrates (Sciaenidae and Ballaenopteridae) from the littoral of Santa Vitoria do Palamar, RS, Brazil. Anais do Congresso 31(5):3049-3055 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54181: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.09.2005, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus2 Gervais 1855 edentate
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiidae indet.1 Gray 1850 beaked whale
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
Eubalaena australis3 Desmoulins 1822 southern right whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Megaptera novaeangliae3 Brisson 1762 humpback whale
Balaenoptera musculus1 Linnaeus 1758 blue whale
Actinopteri
 Acanthuriformes - Sciaenidae
Pogonias cromis Cope 1869 black drum