Also known as Karst of Lagoa Santa

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.5° S, 44.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 44.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Mayer et al. 2016: The stratigraphically controlled excavations and dating of the Cuvieri Cave deposits allowed the establishment of a Late Pleistocene minimum age (~30 ky) for these specimens.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. L. Mayer, A. Hubbe, L. Kerber, P. M. Haddad-Martim, and W. Neves. 2016. Taxonomic, biogeographic, and taphonomic reassessment of a large extinct species of paca from the Quaternary of Brazil. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4):743-758 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211636: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 24.07.2020

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