Lage Grande-Level 2: Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megatheriidae
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Eremotherium laurillardi
(Lund 1842)
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| "E. rusconii" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Haplomastodon chimborazi
Proaño 1922
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| "H. waringi" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Toxodontidae
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Toxodon sp.
Owen 1837
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Pernambuco |
| Coordinates: | 9.1° South, 38.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.1° South, 38.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| 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
| Formation: | Inaja |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: cacimbas-site near/on ancient water hole | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 71276 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | K. Sears |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | ||
| Created: | 1999-02-07 16:17:57 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-07 16:17:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24084. | C. D. Paula Couto. 1980. Fossil Pleistocene to Sub-Recent Mammals from Northeastern Brazil. I - Edentata Megalonychidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencas 52(1):143-151 [J. Alroy/K. Sears] |