Rio Engabao (Edmunds collection) (Pleistocene of Ecuador)
Where: Santa Elena, Ecuador (2.3° S, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 80.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
• The sediments containing the vertebrate remains described here are of estuarine type and were probably laid down by a large stream ancestral to the modern Rio Engabao, but with considerably greater run-off than the present stream. The vertebrate localities probably were near or at the mouth of the old river, and at or very close to sea level. Conditions very similar to those postulated for the Pleistocene Rio Engabao can be seen at the present time at Palmar, about eighteen miles to the north, where a small stream reaches the coast and spreads out into a brackish water swamp with mangroves.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. G. Edmund. 1965. A late pleistocene fauna from the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Division (63)1-21 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185519: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 26.04.2017
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Taxonomic list
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Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
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"Geochelone cf. gallardoi" = Chelonoidis gallardoi
"Geochelone cf. gallardoi" = Chelonoidis gallardoi Rovereto 1914 turtle identified by W. Auffenberg, shell remains
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"Smilodon neogaeus" = Smilodon populator
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"Eremotherium cf. carolinense" = Eremotherium laurillardi
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Pampatherium cf. occidentale edentate single scute of the shield, assigned to this species on biogeographic grounds
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