Where: Pasco, Peru (10.5° S, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° S, 76.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Dentary fragment (with three teeth), two dorsal vertebrae, a partial sternum, an incomplete scapula, and two fibulae

Collected by Castelnau expedition in the ninteenth century

• Specimens without reference number and location of the material, Sansón-Machay is located near to Cerro de Pasco City.

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 145577: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 06.06.2013

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