left bank of the Abunã River: Huayquerian - Montehermosan, Brazil
collected by a resident of Plácido de Castro 2003

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Octodontobradys sp. Santos et al. 1993
UFAC 5643
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Acre County:Plácido de Castro
Coordinates: 10.3° South, 67.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.0° South, 65.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Huayquerian - Montehermosan
Age range of interval: 8 - 3.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Solimões
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: argillaceous outcrop on the left bank of the Abunã River
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:a resident of Plácido de Castro Collection dates:2003
Collection method comments: The mandible described below was generously provided to us by a resident of Plácido de Castro, a town in the eastern extreme of the Brazilian state of Acre, in the southwestern Amazon basin.
All material is deposited in the collection of the Laboratório de Pesquisas Paleontológicas (LPP) at the Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC)
Metadata
Database number:203709
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:M. Kouvari
Created:2019-08-22 06:23:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-22 06:23:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
69818. E. Guilherme, J. Bocquentin, and A. S. Porto. 2011. A New Specimen of the Genus Octodontobradys (Orophodontidae, Octodontobradyinae) From the Late Miocene-Pliocene of the Southwestern Amazon Basin, Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências 34(2):38-45 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari]