Toca do Serrote do Artur (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Piaui, Brazil (8.8° S, 42.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 42.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Kerber et al. 2016: The excavation provided three main fossil-bearing levels (Faure et al. 1999). Most of the vertebrates were collected from the first (the uppermost). This level has two 14C ages: 6890 +/- 60 years BP (5920–5606 calibrated years) and 8490 +/- 120 years BP (8893–7104 calibrated years).

Environment/lithology: karst; lithology not reported

• no details given

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C. Guerin. 1991. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 312:567-572 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71331: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.03.1999, edited by Grace Varnham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• associated with a possible bone industry
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus paca2 Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Galea sp.2 Meyen 1832 caviomorph
Kerodon rupestris2 Wied 1820 caviomorph
 Rodentia - Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta sp.2 Illiger 1811 agouti
FUMDHAM 193-47476
 Rodentia - Echimyidae
Thrichomys sp.2 Trouessart 1881 punaré
Phyllomys sp.2 Lund 1839 Atlantic tree-rat
FUMDHAM 193-47952-1
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus neogeus" = Equus caballus
"Equus neogeus" = Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
"E. neogaeus"
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia cf. patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia cf. patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassu pecari1, "Tayassu tajacu" = Pecari tajacu2
Tayassu pecari1 Link 1795 white-lipped peccary
"Tayassu tajacu" = Pecari tajacu2 Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp.2 Gervais 1869 camel
"Palaeolama major" = Palaeolama (Palaeolama) major1 Liais 1872 camel
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sp.2 Gray 1837 hog-nosed skunk
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp.2, "Hoplophorus euphractus" = Glyptodon euphractus
Glyptodon sp.2 Owen 1839 glyptodon
"Hoplophorus euphractus" = Glyptodon euphractus Lund 1839 glyptodon
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypodinae indet.1 Gray 1821 armadillo
"Dasypus novemcinctus" = Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 Linnaeus 1758 nine-banded armadillo
Propraopus sp. Ameghino 1881 armadillo