Sanga Borba Creek (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (30.2° S, 52.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 52.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• At the moment, there is no absolute dating for these deposits, but the presence of Equus (Amerhippus) neogaeus fossils suggest a Lujanian age (Ribeiro & Scherer, in press. In Scherer et al. 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; white mudstone and muddy conglomerate

• This lithology represents an alluvial deposition, characterized by a fluvial facies at the base of the deposition, and slip processes on top.
• White mudstones partially exposed, eroded, and overlapped by a conglomerate with a muddy matrix, which constitute the floor of the drainage and contain the disarticulated and fragmented fossil material, suggesting reworking.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratório de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (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 151539: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 06.10.2013, edited by Grace Varnham and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudininae indet.2
Testudininae indet.2 Gray 1825 turtle
giant size
Mammalia
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
UFSM 11184
  - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus1
Lestodon armatus1 Gervais 1855 edentate
1Cirino et al. 2023; 2Maciel et al. 1996