Where: São Paulo, Brazil (24.5° S, 48.8° W: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 48.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black, red claystone and pebbly limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Museu de Zoologia of the Universidade de São Paulo
• The skeletal remains described here were collected by
•members of the Museu de Zoologia of the Universidade de
•São Paulo and are deposited at the fossil collection (MZSP)
•of that institution.
Primary reference: M. Castro and M. C. Langer. 2008. New postcranial remains of Smilodon populator Lund, 1842 from southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 11(3):199-206 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 148397: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 19.07.2013, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca | |
Cavia sp. Pallas 1766 guinea pig
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Linnaeus 1766 capybara | |
Kannabateomys sp. Jentink 1891 caviomorph | |
Trinomys sp. Thomas 1921 spiny rat
Phyllomys sp. Lund 1839 Atlantic tree-rat | |
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