Mirim Lake (Pleistocene of Brazil)

Where: Rio Grand do Sul, Brazil (32.8° S, 53.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 53.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. P. Lopes, J. C. Pereira, S. R. Dillenburg, S. H. Tatumi, M. Yee, A. M. Graciano Figueiredo, A. Kinoshita and O. Baffag. 2020. Late Pleistocene-Holocene fossils from Mirim Lake, Southern Brazil, and their paleoenvironmental significance: I - Vertebrates. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 100:102566 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 211308: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.07.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839 glyptodon
Glyptodon cf. reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon
  - Mylodontidae
? Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
 Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Toxodon platensis Owen 1837 notoungulate
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus" = Equus caballus
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus" = Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Cetacea - Balaenidae
cf. Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 southern right whale
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
Morenelaphus sp. Carette 1922 New World deer
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
 Acanthuriformes - Sciaenidae
Pogonias cf. cromis Cope 1869 black drum
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
aff. Dasyatis centroura Mitchill 1814 whiptail stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
cf. Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839 requiem shark