Pilauco, layer PB-7 (Pleistocene of Chile)

Where: Los Lagos, Chile (40.6° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° S, 73.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Bed PB-7. The bed from which the fossil was collected is dated as late Pleistocene (Lujanian; 13,351 years B.P.).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, pebbly, carbonaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Pleistocénico de Osorno, Osorno (MPDO)

Primary reference: E. Gonzalez, R. Labarca, M. Chavez-Hoffmeister and M. Pino. 2014. First fossil record of the smallest deer cf. Pudu Molina, 1782 (Artiodactyla, Cervidae), in the late Pleistocene of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):483-488 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195456: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.08.2018, edited by Miranta Kouvari and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet.1
Gomphotheriidae indet.1 Hay 1922 gomphothere
P/PI/14, 14, 40, 43, 610 to 625,629, 631 and 637
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
cf. Pudu sp.
cf. Pudu sp. Gray 1850 pudus
MHMOP/PI/507
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Onthophagus pilauco n. sp.3, Scybalophagus brellenthinae n. sp.2
Onthophagus pilauco n. sp.3 Tello et al. 2021 scarab beetle
Scybalophagus brellenthinae n. sp.2 Tello et al. 2023 scarab beetle
1Mothé et al. 2017; 2Tello et al. 2023; 3Tello et al. 2021