Taperoa: Pleistocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Panochthus sp. Burmeister 1866
Mammalia - Cingulata - Panochthidae
Parapanochthus sp. Moreira 1971
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Haplomastodon sp. Hoffstetter 1950
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Paraiba
Coordinates: 7.2° South, 36.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.2° South, 36.6° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:local area
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:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: cacimbas: natural excavations produced on the outcropping crystalline rocks of the region by erosive action of weathering water
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:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:71299
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:K. Sears
Modifier:M. Kouvari
Created:1999-02-11 14:20:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-11 14:20:45
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]