Also known as Playa Hermenegildo; Santa Vitória do Palmar

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (33.7° S, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 53.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul have developed the lateral juxtaposition of a depositional system of alluvial fans, and four systems of lagoon-barrier (Villwock & Tomazelli, 1995). The four lagoon-barrier systems were formed starting from four transgressive-regressive events: systems I, II and III of Pleistocene age and System IV of Holocene age. The fossils studied are associated with the deposits of the Lagoon-Barrier System III. These fossils are rolled and collected at the beach.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The fossils are rolled and collected at the beach.

•The material is deposited in the Paleovertebrates Collection of Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul and Laboratório de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

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 149143: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 29.07.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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