Where: Bahia, Brazil (11.0° S, 42.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 42.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Radioisotopic_date error method comments

•0.259 0.062 U-Th on bone

•0.291 0.084 U-Th on bone

•0.218 0.061 U-Th on bone

•0.204 0.034 U-Th on bone

• bed/horizon: Couche IV

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; red, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• "tres fragmentee" (breakage attributed to human action)

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: H. Lumley, M.-A. Lumley, M. C. Moraes Coutinho Beltrao, Y. Yokoyama, J. Labeyrie, J. Danon, G. Delibrias, C. Falgueres, and J. L. Bischoff. 1987. L'Anthropologie 91:917-942 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 71295: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.02.1999

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