PBDB Collection

Cupisnique Desert (including Pampa de los Fósiles and Piedra Escrita sites (Pleistocene of Peru)

Also known as PV 22-19

Where: La Libertad, Peru (7.5° S, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Dates according with Falgueres et al. (1994).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, sandy sandstone and limestone

• Pleistocene levels of the Cupisnique Desert are formed by heterometric breccia with large elements (channel deposits where the fossiliferous levels are located), aeolian sands and windworn, and littoral limestones

• Pleistocene levels of the Cupisnique Desert are formed by heterometric breccia with large elements, aeolian sands and windworn, and littoral limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate

Collected by Paleontological mission of Institut de Paleontologie et de Geologie du Quaternary, Bordeaux, France

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 145505: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 04.06.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Eremotherium laurillardi is reposited at Huaca del Dragon (Trujillo, Peru) (HDD).

•Scelidodon chiliensis is reposited at Museum national d'Historie naturalle (Paris, France) (MNHN).

•Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi is reposited at HDD.

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Mammalia
Rodentia - Caviidae	Neochoerus sp. Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph
Carnivora - Canidae	"Pseudalopex sp." = Lycalopex "Pseudalopex sp." = Lycalopex Burmeister 1854 South American fox
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equus santaeelenae Equus santaeelenae Spillmann 1938 horse
Artiodactyla - Camelidae	Palaeolama sp. Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869 camel
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Odocoileus sp. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Notiomastodon sp.¹ Notiomastodon sp.¹ Cabrera 1929 gomphothere
Cingulata - Pampatheriidae	Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi Cartelle and Bohorquez 1985 edentate Three phalanges, one carpal, a fragment of maxilla, and several undetermined fragments (all under the reference number HDD PV22-108-U3); fragments of skull and dental (HDD PV-22-109)
- Mylodontidae	Scelidodon chiliensis² Scelidodon chiliensis² Lydekker 1886 edentate A sub-complete specimen (MNHN CPN 16): a poorly preserved right foot which consists of tibia (distal epiphysis), of calcaneum fragment, navicular fragment, of astragalus fragment, fragments of metatarsals and phalanx, two sesamoids (cyamo-fabella and ossified meniscus from the knee joint.
Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae	Eremotherium laurillardi Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate Proximal two thirds of Mt V (HDD PV22-44-U12); two large specimens represented by cranial and madibular portions (HDD PV22-40); several postcranial elements of a single specimen without skull but with atlas, axis, several thoracic vertebrae, portions of both radii, right clavicle, right femur (proximal epiphysis), right tibia-fibula (poorly preserved), and both astragali (HDD PV22-44-U9)

¹Mothé and Avilla 2015; ²Pujos 2000