Also known as Minas Gerais
Where: Sao Paulo, Brazil (24.6° S, 48.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Krone, Ricardo in 1897
Primary reference: C. Ameghino. 1907. Notas sobre una pequeña coleccion de huesos de mamiferos procedentes de las grutas calcareas de Iporanga en el Estado de Sao Paulo-Brazil. Rev. Mus. Paulista 7:59-124 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 147815: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 13.07.2013, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dasyprocta sp. Illiger 1811 agouti | |
Kannabateomys amblyonyx caviomorph | |
Dicolpomys fossor Winge 1887 spiny rat
Phyllomys sp. Lund 1839 Atlantic tree-rat
Clyomys sp. Thomas 1916 spiny rat | |
Proechimys sp. Allen 1899 spiny rat | |
Akodon sp. Meyen 1833 akodont | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Chrotopterus auritus Peters 1856 big-eared woolly bat | |
Tayassu indet. Fischer 1814 peccary | |
Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817 brocket deer | |
Panthera aff. onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar | |
Glyptodontia indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate | |
Cabassous sp. McMurtie 1831 naked-tailed armadillo | |
Nothrotherium sp. Lydekker 1889 edentate | |
Chironectes minimus Zimmermann 1780 water opossum |