LACM 5159 (Quaternary of Brazil)

Also known as Acre river

Where: Acre, Brazil (10.9° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 69.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Probably Quaternary representative of a modern species (Gasparini et al. 2021), rather than late Miocene species, as originally proposed by Prothero et al. (2014)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K.E. Campbell in 1981; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: D. R. Prothero, K. E. Campbell, B.L. Beatty and C.D. Frailey. 2014. New late Miocene dromomerycine artiodactyl from Amazon Basin: implications for interchange dynamics. Journal of Paleontology 88(3):434-443 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156532: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Juan Carrillo on 23.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Surameryx acrensis n. gen. n. sp.
Surameryx acrensis n. gen. n. sp. Prothero et al. 2014 deer