Where: Ultima Esperanza, Chile (51.6° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 72.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Salmi (1955) cites a radio carbon dating made by Bird (1951) of the dung from the Mylodon Cave. The result was 10832 ± 400 years.

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•A bottom layer, usually about a metre in thickness, without any traces of branches or leaves, but only dried herbs. Remains of Gygpotherium numerous and confined to this stratum, associated with its excrement and hair, also with remains of a large variety of RIis onp, Macrauchenia, and Onohi&dizm.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

• Other: Coprolites with pollen remains

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•"The C stratum contained mostly remains of animals already extinct. The most important among them were the bones and other remains of the giant sloth"... "Dung constituted the principal part of the C layer which in places was over 1m deep. In the pots where the dung was best preserved its original form apart from the slight flattering of the droopings" (Salmi, 1955)

Preservation: original sporopollenin, coprolite

Collection methods: chemical,

• Repository: Zoological Museum of Helsinki University

Primary reference: M. Salmi. 1955. Additional information on the findings in the Mylodon Cave at Ultima Esperanza. Acta Geographica 14(19):314-333 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151088: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 20.09.2013, edited by Miranta Kouvari

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