Lapa do Caetano: Late Pleistocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon waringi (Holland 1920)
P2-MHN-33 juvenile cranium (22 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Kerber 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Minas Gerais County:Pedro Leopoldo
Coordinates: 19.6° South, 43.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:glacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lapa do Gaetano
Database number:140358
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion Enterer:G. Ballen, G. Varnham
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2013-03-08 06:41:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2016-03-08 06:41:30
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]

Secondary references:

73095 L. Kerber. 2017. Imigrantes em um continente perdido: O registro fossilífero de roedores Caviomorpha (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenohystrica) do Cenozoico do Brasil . Terræ Didatica 13(2):185-211 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]