Celendín (~2500 m including Llaucán) (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Cajamarca, Peru (8.3° S, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Reposited at Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru.

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 145508: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 04.06.2013, edited by Patricio Santamarina and Juan Carrillo

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Megatheriinae indet. Gill 1872 edentate
UNI 667 from “Provincia de Cajamarca, Terciario” & UNI H1 from “Los Paucos, Celendín”
Megatherium "sp. 1" Cuvier 1796 edentate
MUSM 158
Megatherium "sp. 2" Cuvier 1796 edentate
30 km to Celendín
Megatherium "sp. 3" Cuvier 1796 edentate
Llaucán, Bambamarca
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon sp. Cabrera 1929 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Onohippidion cf. peruanum" = Hippidion
"Onohippidion cf. peruanum" = Hippidion horse