Chuí Creek, Santa Vitória do Palmar: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil
collected by J. C. Pereira, R. P. Lopes, and L. Kerber.

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Tegulidae
Tegula patagonica (d'Orbigny 1835)
Lopes and Simone 2012
recombined as Agathistoma patagonicum
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora patagonica (dOrbigny 1839)
Lopes and Simone 2012
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Bostrycapulus odites Collin 2005
Lopes and Simone 2012
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Olivancillaria carcellesi
Lopes and Simone 2012
Olivancillaria urceus
Lopes and Simone 2012
Olivancillaria deshayesiana (Ducros 1857)
Lopes and Simone 2012
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Lamniconus lemniscatus
Lopes and Simone 2012
spp. carcellesi
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Adelomelon brasiliana
Lopes and Simone 2012
Zidona dufresnei Donovan 1823
Lopes and Simone 2012
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Noetia bisulcata (Lamarck 1819)
Lopes and Simone 2012
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding 1828)
Lopes and Simone 2012
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula caribaea d'Orbigny 1845
Lopes and Simone 2012
recombined as Caryocorbula caribaea
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Arcinella brasiliana
Lopes and Simone 2012
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
Lopes and Simone 2012
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Lopes and Simone 2012
recombined as Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Myocastor cf. coypus (Molina 1782)
MCTFM-PV 0732, Right M2 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus (Amerhippus) cf. neogeus (Lund 1840)
synonym of Equus caballus
MCTFM-PV 0618, Incomplete skull (4 measurements)
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Catagonus sp. Ameghino 1904
MCTFM-PV 0575a Skull and, MCTFM-PV 0575b, mandible (4 measurements)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Morenelaphus sp. Carette 1922
Antlers (6 measurements)
Antifer sp. Ameghino 1889
MCTFM-PV 0581, Incomplete antler (4 measurements)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursidae indet. Gray 1825
MCTFM-PV 0710, Complete right upper canine (2 measurements)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Doedicurus sp. Burmeister 1874
MCTFM-PV 0445, Fragment of carapace
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium cf. laurillardi (Lund 1842)
EPM-PV 0133, left dentary (3 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio Grande do Sul
Coordinates: 33.2° South, 53.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° South, 53.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:226 to 34 Ka (ESR)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Absolute ages obtained by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating of fossil teeth from Chuí Creek showed results between 226 and 34 ka (Lopes et al., 2010)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: the layer that contains the mammalian remains is composed by sand with an upward increase in silt. This layer seems to have been deposited in a meandering fluvial system
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. C. Pereira, R. P. Lopes, and L. Kerber.
Metadata
Database number:148417
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Vallejo, M. Krause
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-07-20 00:24:03 Last modified:2013-07-19 09:24:03
Access level:group members Released:2015-07-20 00:24:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47667. J. C. Pereira, R. P. Lopes, and L. Kerber. 2012. New remains of Late Pleistocene mammals from the Chuí Creek, Southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira De Paleontologia 15(2):228-239 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

57854 R. P. Lopes and L. R. Simone. 2012. New fossil records of Pleistocene Marine mollusks in Southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 15(1):49-56 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]