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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C. Guerin. 1991. La faune de vertébrés du Pléistocéne supérieur de l’aire archéologique de São Raimundo Nonato (Piauí, Brésil). Comptes Rendus de l‘Académie des Sciences 312:567-572 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/E. Vlachos]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

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