La Brea - Talara (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Piura, Peru (4.7° S, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 81.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Dates according with Bryan (1973)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate

Collection methods: Megatherium elenense is reposited at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (ROM).

•Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi is reposited at Facultad de Geologia de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (MUSM).

Primary reference: F. Pujos and R. Salas. 2004. A systematic reassessment and paleogeographic review of fossil Xenarthra from Peru. Bulletin de l'institut Francais d'Études Andines 33:331-377 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145500: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 04.06.2013, edited by Patricio Santamarina, Juan Carrillo and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
? Marmosa sp.
? Marmosa sp. Gray 1821 mouse opossum
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
? Tapirus sp.
? Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp., Mazama sp.
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817 brocket deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp.
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera sp., Smilodon sp.
Panthera sp. Oken 1816 cat
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841 saber-toothed cat
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sp.
Conepatus sp. Gray 1837 hog-nosed skunk
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Pseudalopex sp." = Lycalopex, Canis sp.
"Pseudalopex sp." = Lycalopex Burmeister 1854 South American fox
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
? Sigmodon sp., ? Phyllotis sp.
? Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
? Phyllotis sp. Waterhouse 1837 mouse
 Rodentia - Caviidae
? Neochoerus sp.
? Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon sp.2
Notiomastodon sp.2 Cabrera 1929 gomphothere
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Megatherium elenense, Eremotherium sp.
Megatherium elenense Hoffstetter 1949 edentate
right scapula (glenoid cavity and a portion of the body, ROM 2140), body of a thoracic vertebra (juvenile specimen, ROM 2144), right Mt III (ROM 2682), right lunar (ROM 2683), sterner (ROM 2685), left cuboid (ROM 2686), right magnum (ROM 2687), left calacaneum (ROM 2697), left astragalus (ROM 2698), right dental (fragment, ROM 3756), right lunar (partial, ROM 3778), left Mc II (ROM 3779), night navicular (ROM 3783), right Mt III (ROM 3784), diaphysis of right radius (juvenile, ROM 5391), jugal (juvenile, ROM 10401), right zygomatic arch (fragment, ROM 10402), occipital condyle (ROM 10403), right unciform (ROM 10404), fragments of thoracic vertebrae (ROM 10405-10408), sacral vertebra (fragment, ROM 10409), caudal vertebra (ROM 10410), right acetabulum (fragment, ROM 10412), fragment of acetabulum (ROM 10413), diaphysis of left tibia (juvenile, ROM 10414), diaphysis of left humerus (juvenile, ROM 10415), lunula (ROM 10417 - 10420), right mesocuneiform-entocuneiform-complex (ROM 10422), left MEC (ROM 10423), right fibula (distal epiphysis, ROM 12690), diaphysis of right tibia (ROM 28575), left Mc III (ROM 35033), left Mc III (distal epiphysis, ROM 35872), palmar sesamoid (ROM 35873), proximal epiphysis of a radius (juvenile, ROM 35874), caudal vertebrae (ROM 35875 - 35878), sternal rib (ROM 35879), rib fragments (ROM 35882 - 35885, 35862 - 35896), right clavicle (fragment, ROM 35886), left ectocuneiform (ROM 35907), and several fragments of teeth
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidotherium sp., Scelidodon chiliensis, Glossotherium tropicorum1
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate
Scelidodon chiliensis Lydekker 1886 edentate
Glossotherium tropicorum1 Hoffstetter 1952 edentate
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi, Chlamytherium sp.
Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi Cartelle and Bohorquez 1985 edentate
dorsal plates (MUSM 155, 163, and 164)
Chlamytherium sp. Lund 1838 edentate
synonym of Holmesina sp.
1De Iuliis et al. 2017; 2Mothé and Avilla 2015