Also known as Arroyo Chuí, Lagoon-Barrier III System, Chuí Creek Lagoon System III

Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (33.7° S, 53.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 53.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lujanian mammal zone, Santa Vitória Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• The outcrops in the Arroio Chuí belong to the Lagoon-Barrier III System (Santa Vitória Formation). The age of the paleofauna is correlated to the Lujanian Stage/Age of Buenos Aires Province (Oliveira, 1999), according to the guide fossil Equus neogeus (Cione & Tonni, 1999).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository:Emgidio Pinto Martino Collection, Museum Coronel Tancredo Fernandes de Mello, Santa Vitória do Palmar, RS, Brazil; and Institutional abbreviations.EPM-PV, Emgidio Pinto Martino

•Collection, Museu Coronel Tancredo Fernandes de Mello,

•Santa Vitória do Palmar, RS, Brazil; MCPU-PV, Museu de Ciências,

•PUCRS Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil; MNRJ, Museu Nacional,

•Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Primary reference: E. V. Oliveira and J. C. Pereira. 2009. Intertropical cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Southern Brazil: Systematics and paleobiogeographical aspects. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3):167-178 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147598: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 09.07.2013, edited by Katherine Magoulick, Grace Varnham, Miranta Kouvari and Kateryn Pino

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