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 | |
Mammalia | |
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839 glyptodon
Glyptodon cf. reticulatus Owen 1845 glyptodon | |
? Mylodontidae indet. Ameghino 1889 edentate | |
cf. Eremotherium laurillari edentate | |
Toxodon platensis Owen 1837 notoungulate | |
Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere | |
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus" = Equus caballus
"Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus" = Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
cf. Eubalaena australis Desmoulins 1822 southern right whale | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
Morenelaphus sp. Carette 1922 New World deer | |
Actinopteri | |
Pogonias cf. cromis Cope 1869 black drum | |
Chondrichthyes | |
aff. Dasyatis centroura Mitchill 1814 whiptail stingray | |
cf. Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839 requiem shark |