Where: Pasco, Peru (10.7° S, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 76.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Specimens 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 145583: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Andrés Cárdenas on 06.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Megatherium elenense Hoffstetter 1949 edentate a single specimen, MUSM 134, consisting of 14 vertebrae, rib fragments, pelvis, proximal epiphysis of left femur, left astragalus (without odontoid process), left Mc II-IV, anterior phalanges (left (1-2) III, right 1 II, left 3 III, right partial 3 IV, right Mt V, posterior phalanx (right 3 III). Similar to the elements of M. (P.) elenense from Talara.
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