Serra do Gronda (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Espirito Santo, Brazil (20.7° S, 41.1° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 40.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported

• bed of a former creek in the region

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C. D. Paula Couto. 1978. Mamiferos Fosseis do Pleistoceno do Espirito Santo. Anais da Academia Brasiliera de Cienceas 50(3):365-379 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71293: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 10.02.1999, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Mazama americana Erxleben 1777 red brocket
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Rodentia - Dasyproctidae
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate
rusconii
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Haplomastodon chimborazi" = Notiomastodon platensis
"Haplomastodon chimborazi" = Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere
waringi