Also known as Touro Passo creek

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 56.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mudstone Member (Touro Passo Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The fossils were collected probably from the point that Bombim (1976) called “place with larger number of mammals”, in the carbonate level (medium portion of the “Mudstone Member”).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; muddy sandstone and carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MCN-PV, paleovertebrate collection, Museu de Ciências Naturais of the Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil).

Primary reference: C. S. Scherer, J. Ferigolo, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2007. Contribution to the knowledge of Hemiauchenia paradoxa (Artiodactyla, Camelidae) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 10(1):35-52 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148419: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 20.07.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham

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