Rio Engabao (Edmunds collection): Late Pleistocene, Ecuador
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Pampatheriidae
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Pampatherium cf. occidentale
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single scute of the shield, assigned to this species on biogeographic grounds | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium cf. carolinense
Spillmann 1948
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most abundant | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. santaeelenae
Spillmann 1938
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(Amerhippus), tooth and phalanx | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus cf. salinae
Frick 1937
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right astragalus and antler tine | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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cf. Lutra sp.
Brisson 1762
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isolated vertebra centrum | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon neogaeus
Lund 1879
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proximal phalanx of digit I | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Geoemyda sp.
Gray 1834
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identified by W. Auffenberg | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone cf. gallardoi
Rovereto 1914
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identified by W. Auffenberg, shell remains | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Ecuador | State/province: | Santa Elena |
Coordinates: | 2.3° South, 80.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 2.3° South, 80.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Late Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: The sediments containing the vertebrate remains described here are of estuarine type and were probably laid down by a large stream ancestral to the modern Rio Engabao, but with considerably greater run-off than the present stream. The vertebrate localities probably were near or at the mouth of the old river, and at or very close to sea level. Conditions very similar to those postulated for the Pleistocene Rio Engabao can be seen at the present time at Palmar, about eighteen miles to the north, where a small stream reaches the coast and spreads out into a brackish water swamp with mangroves. | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 185519 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | M. Kouvari | ||
Created: | 2017-04-26 07:16:54 | Last modified: | 2020-12-01 08:17:00 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-04-26 07:16:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
62199. | A. G. Edmund. 1965. A late pleistocene fauna from the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Division (63)1-21 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |