Engabao de Chanduy (Pleistocene to of Ecuador)

Where: Santa Elena, Ecuador (2.3° S, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Spillmann, K.K. Landes; reposited in the YPM

• Ecole Polytechnique Nationale - EPN- Quito, Ecuador

Primary reference: R. Hoffstetter. 1952. Les Mammiferes Pleistocenes de la Republique de L´Equateur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 66:1-391 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133631: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 20.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
"Eremotherium carolinense" = Eremotherium laurillardi
"Eremotherium carolinense" = Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate