Cave of Gruta dos Mouras (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Tocantins, Brazil (12.7° S, 46.4° W: paleocoordinates 12.7° S, 46.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified limestone

• Material was derived from a limestone cave in Aurora de Tocantins, State of Tocantins in Northern Brazil. The study area is geologically poorly understood.

•The Gruta dos Moura is an epigenic, solutional, ramiform to network cave with some branchwork passages (sensu Palmer,1991) and great vertical and horizontal development. The entire length of the cave has not yet been completely mapped

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 2009

• Repository: DGEO-UFPE, Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

Primary reference: E. V. Oliveira, P. Villa Nova, F. J. Goin and L. S. Avilla. 2011. A new hyladelphine marsupial (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) from cave deposits of northern Brazil. Zootaxa 3041:51-62 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149493: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 06.08.2013, edited by Juan Carrillo and Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Sairadelphys tocantinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Sairadelphys tocantinensis n. gen. n. sp. Oliveira et al. 2011 opossum
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Catagonus stenocephalus1
Catagonus stenocephalus1 Lund 1880 Chacoan peccary
UNIRIO-PM 1006
 Rodentia -
Kannabateomys sp.2
Kannabateomys sp.2 Jentink 1891 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Makalata sp.2, Thrichomys sp.2
Makalata sp.2 Husson 1978 spiny rat
Thrichomys sp.2 Trouessart 1881 punaré
 Rodentia -
Proechimys sp.2
Proechimys sp.2 Allen 1899 spiny rat
 Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Pachyarmatherium brasiliense3
Pachyarmatherium brasiliense3 Porpino et al. 2009 edentate
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Euphractus sexcinctus3, "Dasypus novemcinctus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3, Propraopus sulcatus3
Euphractus sexcinctus3 Linnaeus 1758 six banded armadillo
"Dasypus novemcinctus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3 Linnaeus 1758 nine-banded armadillo
Propraopus sulcatus3 Lund 1838 armadillo
1Avilla et al. 2013; 2Kerber 2017; 3Soibelzon et al. 2015