Where: Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (5.6° S, 37.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 37.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• dos Santos Pereira et al. 2013: an age estimated between 93 and 47 ka

Environment/lithology: cave; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: dos Santos Pereira et al. 2013: Currently, the specimen is housed at the collection of the Museu Camara Cascudo (MCC) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The material was collected with no field data

Primary reference: I. C. dos Santos Pereira, M. A. T. Dantas, and R. Lopes Ferreira. 2013. Record of the giant sloth Valgipes bucklandi (Lund, 1839) (Tardigrada, Scelidotheriinae) in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, with notes on taphonomy and paleoecology. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 43:42-45 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212567: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 16.08.2020

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