Also known as Cueva Lago Sofía

Where: Última Esperanza, Chile (51.6° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 72.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Chimento and Agnolin 2017: All the fossil material comes from Late Pleistocene strata, and available dates indicates it was present by 11.085 ± 70 AP (Massone, 2004), 10.840 ± 60 AP (Martin, 2012), and 13.560 ± 180/10.200 ± 400 AP (Tonni et al., 2003).

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. R. Chimento and F. L. Agnolin. 2017. The fossil American lion (Panthera atrox) in South America: Palaeobiogeographical implications. Palevol 16:850-864 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213008: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 24.08.2020

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