La Brea - Talara: Lujanian, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
De Iuliis et al. 2017
ROM 12676 (and additional ROM material)
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Megatherium elenense (Hoffstetter 1949)
right scapula (glenoid cavity and a portion of the body, ROM 2140), body of a thoracic vertebra (juvenile specimen, ROM 2144), right Mt III (ROM 2682), right lunar (ROM 2683), sterner (ROM 2685), left cuboid (ROM 2686), right magnum (ROM 2687), left calacaneum (ROM 2697), left astragalus (ROM 2698), right dental (fragment, ROM 3756), right lunar (partial, ROM 3778), left Mc II (ROM 3779), night navicular (ROM 3783), right Mt III (ROM 3784), diaphysis of right radius (juvenile, ROM 5391), jugal (juvenile, ROM 10401), right zygomatic arch (fragment, ROM 10402), occipital condyle (ROM 10403), right unciform (ROM 10404), fragments of thoracic vertebrae (ROM 10405-10408), sacral vertebra (fragment, ROM 10409), caudal vertebra (ROM 10410), right acetabulum (fragment, ROM 10412), fragment of acetabulum (ROM 10413), diaphysis of left tibia (juvenile, ROM 10414), diaphysis of left humerus (juvenile, ROM 10415), lunula (ROM 10417 - 10420), right mesocuneiform-entocuneiform-complex (ROM 10422), left MEC (ROM 10423), right fibula (distal epiphysis, ROM 12690), diaphysis of right tibia (ROM 28575), left Mc III (ROM 35033), left Mc III (distal epiphysis, ROM 35872), palmar sesamoid (ROM 35873), proximal epiphysis of a radius (juvenile, ROM 35874), caudal vertebrae (ROM 35875 - 35878), sternal rib (ROM 35879), rib fragments (ROM 35882 - 35885, 35862 - 35896), right clavicle (fragment, ROM 35886), left ectocuneiform (ROM 35907), and several fragments of teeth
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi Cartelle and Bohorquez 1985
dorsal plates (MUSM 155, 163, and 164)
synonym of Holmesina sp.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Mothé and Avilla 2015
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
? Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
? Phyllotis sp. Waterhouse 1837
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841
Panthera sp. Oken 1816
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Pseudalopex sp. Burmeister 1856
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sp. Gray 1837
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mazama sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
? Marmosa sp. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Piura
Coordinates: 4.7° South, 81.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Lujanian
Age range of interval: 0.4 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 14418 ± 535 to 13616 ± 600 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Dates according with Bryan (1973)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Megatherium elenense is reposited at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (ROM).
Holmesina cf. paulacoutoi is reposited at Facultad de Geologia de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (MUSM).
Metadata
Database number:145500
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo, P. Mannion Enterer:A. Cárdenas, P. Mannion, P. Santamarina, J. Carrillo
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-06-04 01:36:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-06-04 01:36:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46859. F. Pujos and R. Salas. 2004. A systematic reassessment and paleogeographic review of fossil Xenarthra from Peru. Bulletin de l'institut Francais d'Études Andines 33:331-377 [C. Jaramillo/J. Ceballos/A. Cárdenas]

Secondary references:

73258 G. De Iuliis, C. Cartelle, H. G. McDonald and F. Pujos. 2017. The mylodontine ground sloth Glossotherium tropicorum from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador and Peru. Papers in Palaeontology 3(4):613-636 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
66428 D. Mothé and L. Avilla. 2015. Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American Gomphotheriidae (Mammalia: Proboscidea). Quaternary Science Reviews 110:23-35 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]