Pampa del Tamarugal (near Pica) (Pleistocene of Chile)

Where: Region 1, Chile (20.5° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 20.5° S, 69.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• No stratigraphic data provided. Probably Lujanian SALMA.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SGOPV

Primary reference: G. de Iuliis. 2006. On the taxonomic status of Megatherium sundti Philippi, 1893 (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae). Ameghiniana 43(1):161-169 [D. Croft/D. Croft]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63760: authorized by Darin Croft, entered by Darin Croft on 20.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidodon chiliense n. sp. Lydekker 1886 edentate
holotype plus other specimens
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Megatherium medinae n. sp. Philippi 1893 edentate
holotype only (incomplete mandible)