Gruta do Ingá: Late Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon waringi
(Holland 1920)
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| MCL uncatalogued cranium and partial apendicular skeleton (53 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Minas Gerais | County: | Pains |
| Coordinates: | 20.4° South, 45.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | |||||
| 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
| Stratigraphy comments: This is a calcareous cave. Fossils were collected in argillaceous and calcareous superficial sediments |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | argillaceous,calcareous claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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: | 140355 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Jaramillo | Enterer: | G. Ballen |
| Created: | 2013-03-08 06:29:09 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2016-03-08 06:29:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45412. | M. T. Alberdi, J. L. Pardo, and C. Cartelle. 2002. El registro de Stegomastodon (Mammalia, Gomphotheriidae) en el Pleistoceno superior de Brasil. Revista Española de Paleontología 17(2):217-235 [C. Jaramillo/G. Ballen] |