Joao Cativo-Site 2 (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Ceara, Brazil (3.5° S, 39.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 39.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

• cacimbas: natural excavations produced on the outcropping crystalline rocks of the region by erosive action of weathering water

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C. D. Paula Couto. 1980. Fossil Pleistocene to Sub-Recent Mammals from Northeastern Brazil. I - Edentata Megalonychidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencas 52(1):143-151 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71302: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 11.02.1999, edited by Kateryn Pino

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp.
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
"Eremotherium sp." = Eremotherium, "Xenocnus sp." = Eremotherium
"Eremotherium sp." = Eremotherium Spillmann 1948 edentate
"Xenocnus sp." = Eremotherium Spillmann 1948 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium sp.
Nothrotherium sp. Lydekker 1889 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidodon sp., Glossotherium robustum
Scelidodon sp. Ameghino 1881 edentate
Glossotherium robustum Owen 1842 edentate
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippidion sp., Equus sp.
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Mazama sp.
Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817 brocket deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Lama sp., Hemiauchenia sp.
Lama sp. Cuvier 1800 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassu sp.
Tayassu sp. Fischer 1814 peccary
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp.
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Protocyon sp., Speothos sp.
Protocyon sp. Giebel 1855 canine
Speothos sp. Lund 1839 bush dog