Guitarrero Cave-Complex 1 (Holocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (9.2° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 77.7° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Radioisotopic_date error method comments

•0.01256 0.00036 C14

•0.009475 0.00013 C14

•0.00979 0.00024 C14

•0.00966 0.00015 C14

•0.00914 9e-05 C14

Environment/lithology: cave

• sandy silt, layer varied in thickness from 20 to nearly 50 cm

Preservation: coprolite

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: E. S. Wing. 1980. Faunal remains. Guitarrero Cave: Early Man in the Andes 149-172 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 71326: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 17.02.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus rex hog-nosed skunk
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagidium peruanum Meyen 1833 northern viscacha
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus brasiliensis Linnaeus 1758 tapeti