Sanga da Cruz Creek (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Also known as Salatiel II

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.6° S, 55.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 55.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and mudstone

• A lower conglomeratic level and an upper muddy level.

Size class: macrofossils

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

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 151522: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 06.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
MCN-PV 1487, 1476