Serra dos Carajas (Holocene of Brazil)

Where: Pará, Brazil (6.1° S, 50.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Kerber. 2017. Imigrantes em um continente perdido: O registro fossilífero de roedores Caviomorpha (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenohystrica) do Cenozoico do Brasil . Terræ Didatica 13(2):185-211 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211490: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 19.07.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Coendou prehensilis
Coendou prehensilis Linnaeus 1758 prehensile-tailed porcupine
 Rodentia - Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta sp.
Dasyprocta sp. Illiger 1811 agouti
 Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus paca
Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Linnaeus 1766 capybara
 Rodentia -
Proechimys sp.
Proechimys sp. Allen 1899 spiny rat
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Echimys sp., Dactylomys dactylinus
Echimys sp. Cuvier 1809 spiny tree-rat