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 Evangelos Vlachos and Kateryn Pino
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Reptilia | |
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Ophidia indet. snake | |
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Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
| Aves | |
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Rhea sp. Brisson 1760 rhea | |
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Neognathae indet. bird | |
| Reptilia | |
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
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Testudinata indet. turtle | |
| Mammalia | |
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Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758 cat | |
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Protocyon sp. Giebel 1855 canine
Speothos sp. Lund 1839 bush dog | |
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Lama sp. Cuvier 1800 camel
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel | |
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Tayassu sp. Fischer 1814 peccary | |
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Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817 brocket deer | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse | |
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Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866 glyptodon | |
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Glossotherium robustum Owen 1842 edentate
Scelidodon sp. Ameghino 1881 edentate | |
"Eremotherium sp." = Eremotherium, "Xenocnus sp." = Eremotherium
"Eremotherium sp." = Eremotherium Spillmann 1948 edentate
"Xenocnus sp." = Eremotherium Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
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Nothrotherium sp. Lydekker 1889 edentate | |