Where: Piauí, Brazil (8.9° S, 42.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 42.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Kerber et al. 2016: Available numerical ages from Toca do Serrote das Moendas include 14C on mollusks (24,210 +/- 150 and 26,970 +/- 140 years BP), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) (13,000 +/- 3,000 years BP) and electron spin resonance on mammal teeth (Blastocerus) (22,000 +/- 2,000 and 23,000 +/- 2,000 years BP) (Guidon et al. 2009), corresponding to the late Pleistocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Kerber et al. 2016: The material here described has been collected since 1986 by the archaeologist Dr Niéde Guidon and her team. The material is housed in the palaeovertebrates collection of the Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (FUMDHAM)

Primary reference: L. Kerber, E. L. Mayer, A. M. Ribeiro and M. G. Vucetich. 2016. Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxon. Historical Biology 28(4):439-458 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211632: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 24.07.2020

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