La Ligua, Región de Valparaíso (Catapilco & Tierras Blancas) (Pleistocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (32.4° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 71.2° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Mothé, L. dos Santos Avilla, L. Asevedo, L. Borges-Silva, M. Rosas, R. Labarca-Encina, R. Souberlich, E. Soibelzon, J. L. Roman-Carrion, S. D. Ríos, A. D. Rincon, G. Cardoso Oliveira, and R. P. Lopes. 2017. Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae). Quaternary International 443:52-64 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213217: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Miranta Kouvari on 28.08.2020, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
SGO.PV.42 SGO.PV.142 SGO.PV.7, 8, 9, 25, 56, 57