Abismo Iguatemi (Holocene of Brazil)

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

• The cave deposits are mainly composed of a black to reddish clay associated with larger clasts of limestone, filite and calcite crusts.

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
 Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Cavia sp. Pallas 1766 guinea pig
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Linnaeus 1766 capybara
 Rodentia -
Kannabateomys sp. Jentink 1891 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Trinomys sp. Thomas 1921 spiny rat
Phyllomys sp. Lund 1839 Atlantic tree-rat
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842 saber-toothed cat
postcranial elements