Where: Piauí, Brazil (8.8° S, 42.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 42.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Kerber et al. 2016: To date, this locality has no numerical age data, but Guérin and Faure (2004b) assigned the fauna to the late Pleistocene–early Holocene.

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 211633: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 24.07.2020

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