Taperoa (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Paraiba, Brazil (7.2° S, 36.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 36.6° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• cacimbas: natural excavations produced on the outcropping crystalline rocks of the region by erosive action of weathering water

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C. D. Paula Couto. 1980. Fossil Pleistocene to Sub-Recent Mammals from Northeastern Brazil. I - Edentata Megalonychidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencas 52(1):143-151 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71299: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 11.02.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon Cabrera 1929 gomphothere
  - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium sp.
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp.
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp.
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Panochthidae
Parapanochthus sp.
Parapanochthus sp. Moreira 1971 edentate
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Macrauchenia sp.
Macrauchenia sp. Owen 1838 placental