Aquas do Araxa: Pleistocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
(1 measurement)
    = Stegomastodon waringi Holland 1920
Alberdi et al. 2002
MCL-uncatalogued-mandible; P32-MHN-40
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Minas Geraes
Coordinates: 19.3° South, 46.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.3° South, 46.3° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene - Pleistocene
Key time interval: Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:spring
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: spring ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:35 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1507, Aquas do Araxa,
Database number:22633
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, C. Jaramillo Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, G. Ballen
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:2001-03-27 01:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-27 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

5674.ETE 1430G. Haynes. 1991. Mammoths, mastodons and elephants: biology, behavior and the fossil record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 413 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

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]