Toca da Raposa: Pleistocene - Holocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Galea spixii (Wagler 1851)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus rugiceps Lund 1837
Silva and Dantas 2020
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon clavipes Owen 1839
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Sergipe County:Simao Dias
Coordinates: 10.7° South, 37.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.7° South, 37.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Since it was not possible to make a dating of the material collected, as a precaution, these remains are for the time being assigned to the late Pleistocene-Holocene."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:113472
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Holroyd Enterer:M. Shalap, K. Magoulick
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2011-07-31 07:53:40 Last modified:2020-11-30 12:09:57
Access level:the public Released:2011-07-31 07:53:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36821. M. A. T. Dantas. 2009. Primeiro Registro de Fosseis de Mamiferos Pleistocenicos em Caverna de Sergipe, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(2):161-164 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]

Secondary references:

85314 G. C. R. Silva and M. A. T. Dantas. 2020. Registro e Paleoecologia Isotópica (δ13C) de Cuniculus rugiceps na Toca da Raposa, Simão Dias, Sergipe, Brasil [Fossil Record and Isotopic Paleoecology (δ13C) of Cuniculus rugiceps in Toca da Raposa, Simão Dias, Sergipe, Brazil]. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ 43(1):334-338 [P. Holroyd/K. Magoulick/K. Magoulick]