Toca da Raposa (Pleistocene to of Brazil)

Where: Sergipe, Brazil (10.7° S, 37.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 37.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Since it was not possible to make a dating of the material collected, as a precaution, these remains are for the time being assigned to the late Pleistocene-Holocene."

Environment/lithology: cave; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. A. T. Dantas. 2009. Primeiro Registro de Fosseis de Mamiferos Pleistocenicos em Caverna de Sergipe, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(2):161-164 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 113472: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 31.07.2011, edited by Katherine Magoulick

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839 glyptodon
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Galea spixii Wagler 1851 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus rugiceps Lund 1837 caviomorph