Santa Cruz Fossil Rodents (Pleistocene to of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (0.6° S, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 90.8° W)

When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, A. A.E. van der Geer, and C. L. Wijngaarden. 2017. Why are there no giants at the dwarves feet? Insular micromammals in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary International 445:269-278 [M. Uhen/A. Levy/A. Levy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214627: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Andrew Levy on 11.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Megaoryzomys curioi
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Megaoryzomys curioi Niethammer 1964