Ucayali basin (Río Inuya and Río Ucayali): Pleistocene, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon sp.. Owen 1837
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon (Haplomastodon) sp. Pohlig 1912
    = Notiomastodon sp. Cabrera 1929
Mothé and Avilla 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:San Martin County:Ucayali
Coordinates: 6.6° South, 76.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° South, 76.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Fossiliferous Pleistocene levels are located above the Miocene Ipururo Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:151920
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:P. Santamarina, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-10-18 04:59:42 Last modified:2020-12-01 08:05:54
Access level:authorizer only Released:2018-10-18 04:59:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46859. F. Pujos and R. Salas. 2004. A systematic reassessment and paleogeographic review of fossil Xenarthra from Peru. Bulletin de l'institut Francais d'Études Andines 33:331-377 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

66428 D. Mothé and L. Avilla. 2015. Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea). Quaternary Science Reviews 110:23-35 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]