Celendín (~2500 m including Llaucán): Pleistocene, Peru

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
UNI 667 from “Provincia de Cajamarca, Terciario” & UNI H1 from “Los Paucos, Celendín”
MUSM 158
30 km to Celendín
Llaucán, Bambamarca
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Mothé and Avilla 2015
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Peru State/province:Cajamarca
Coordinates: 8.3° South, 77.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° South, 77.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Reposited at Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru.
Metadata
Database number:145508
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:A. Cárdenas, J. Carrillo, P. Santamarina
Modifier:M. Kouvari Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-06-04 07:12:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-06-04 07:12:49
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:

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]