Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (33.6° S, 53.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 53.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• These fossils are associated with the deposits of Lagoon-Barrier System III, which have an estimated age of about 120,000 years BP (Villwock & Tomazelli, 1995 in Scherer et al., 2009). There is no absolute dating for the fossiliferous level, but the assemblage permits a Lujanian age to be inferred (Oliveira et al., 2005; Lopes et al., 2005. in Scherer et al., 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; medium-grained sandstone and muddy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museu de Ciências Naturais of Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Paleovertebrates Collection, Porto Alegre

Primary reference: C. S. Scherer, V. G. Pitana, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2009. Proterotheriidae and Macraucheniidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3):231-246 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151515: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 06.10.2013

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