Also known as Lapa dos Brejões, Gruta dos Bejoes, Gruta dos Beijos

Where: Bahia, Brazil (11.0° S, 41.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 41.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Gomes et al. 2019: This cave is formed by the Neoproterozoic limestones of the Grupo Una (Salitre Formation) which are exposed in the Jacaré River, northeastern border of the sedimentary basin of Irecê (Berbet-Born and Karmann, 2000).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Cartelle et al.

Primary reference: G. Lessa, C. Cartelle, H. Farias and P. R. Gonçalves. 1998. Novos achados de mamiferos carnivoros do Pleistoceno final-Holoceno em grutas calcarias do Estado da Bahia. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 21(46/47):157-169 [C. Jaramillo/G. Ballen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 136420: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Gustavo Ballen on 28.11.2012, edited by Grace Varnham

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