Cerro da Tapera (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Also known as Right margin of the Quaraí River; Cati Creek

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (30.9° S, 56.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 56.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Touro Passo Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• A sucessão, com aproximadamente 5 m de espessura, é igualmente incluída na Formação Touro Passo e correlacionada com o topo da Formação Sopas. Amostras coletadas para datação por termoluminescência estão sendo processadas para esta localidade.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone and brown mudstone

• fine to medium sandstone and brown mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. G. Pitana and A. M. Ribeiro. 2007. Novos materiais de Propraopus Ameghino, 1881 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) do Pleistoceno final, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. GAEA Journal of Geoscience 3(2):60-67 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124715: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 22.02.2012, edited by Philip Mannion, Kateryn Pino and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
"Propraopus grandis" = Propraopus sulcatus
"Propraopus grandis" = Propraopus sulcatus Lund 1838 armadillo
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
  - Mylodontidae
Mylodontinae indet.2 Gill 1872 edentate
Lestodon armatus1 Gervais 1855 edentate
Glossotherium robustum3 Owen 1842 edentate
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet.2 Gray 1821 deer
Morenelaphus sp.2 Carette 1922 New World deer
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus cf. terrestris2 Linnaeus 1758 Brazilian tapir
MCN-PV-9700
 Carnivora -
Carnivora indet.2 carnivoran
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodontidae indet.2 Scott 1873 notoungulate