Where: Ecuador (0.2° S, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Zunino in 1986

• Repository: Museo de Historia Natural “Gustavo Orces V.”, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito.

Primary reference: M. Zunino. 2013. The first dung beetle retrieved from Coprinisphaeridae ichnofossils: Phanaeus violetae n. sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from Ecuadorian cangahua balls. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 29:219-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178693: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2016

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