Salatiel II: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia paradoxa
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Coordinates: | 29.6° South, 55.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.6° South, 55.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | muddy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The outcrops of Sanga da Cruz creek present a lithology composed of a conglomeratic level at its base, where fossils mammals are collected, covered by a muddy sandstone level, with archaeological material (Da Rosa, 2003). | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: The material is deposited in the Paleovertebrates Collection of Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul and Laboratório de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sanga da Cruz creek (Alegrete) | ||
| Database number: | 149093 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | C. Suarez-Gomez | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-07-29 10:28:26 | Last modified: | 2013-07-28 19:28:26 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2015-07-29 10:28:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47662. | C. S. Scherer, J. Ferigolo, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2007. Contribution to the knowledge of Hemiauchenia paradoxa (Artiodactyla, Camelidae) from the Pleistocene of southern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 10(1):35-52 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez] |