Toca do Barrigudo: Pleistocene - Holocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Palaeolama sp.
Gervais 1869
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassu sp.
Fischer 1814
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Mazama sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Panameriungulata
- Macraucheniidae
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Macrauchenia sp.
Owen 1838
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Echimyidae
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Thrichomys sp.
Trouessart 1881
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Caviidae
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Kerodon rupestris
Wied 1820
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Galea sp.
Meyen 1832
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Scelidodon piauiensis n. sp.
Guérin and Faure 2004
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodon sp.
Owen 1839
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Piauí |
| Coordinates: | 8.8° South, 42.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.8° South, 42.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| 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: Kerber et al. 2016: To date, this locality has no numerical age data, but Guérin and Faure (2004b) assigned the fauna to the late Pleistocene–early Holocene. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | karst indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Kerber et al. 2016: The material here described has been collected since 1986 by the archaeologist Dr Niéde Guidon and her team. The material is housed in the palaeovertebrates collection of the Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (FUMDHAM). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 211633 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-07-24 09:13:43 | Last modified: | 2020-07-24 04:13:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-07-24 09:13:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 73155. | L. Kerber, E. L. Mayer, A. M. Ribeiro and M. G. Vucetich. 2016. Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxon. Historical Biology 28(4):439-458 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |