Where: Peru (4.7° S, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° S, 80.5° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: tar; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve
Primary reference: R. R. H. Lemon and C. S. Churcher. 1961. Pleistocene Geology and Paleontology of the Talara Region, Northwest Peru. American Journal of Science 259:410-429 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71346: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 12.03.1999, edited by Richard Hulbert, Matthew Clapham, Evangelos Vlachos, Jonathan Marcot and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph | |
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Phyllotis sp. Waterhouse 1837 mouse | |
Eptesicus sp. Rafinesque 1820 house bat | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
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Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
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Chlamytherium sp. Lund 1838 edentate | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate | |
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon Cabrera 1929 gomphothere | |
Marmosa sp. Gray 1821 mouse opossum | |
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Chelonoidis sp.4 Fitzinger 1835 turtle Carapacial bones: three costals (ROM-42025, 42028 and 42029) and three peripheral bones (ROM-42026, 42030, and 2024).Limb bones: thirty-four osteoderms (ROM-40572- 40599, 40620, 40600-40604 and 42190); one podial bone (ROM-40620). Unidentified bones: six unidentified shell bones (ROM- 42021-42024, 42027 and 42031).
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Belonopterus edmondi n. sp.1, Viator picis n. gen. n. sp.1, Pluvialis squatarola1, Pluvialis dominica1, Charadrius collaris1, Charadrius vociferus1, Charadrius semipalmatus1
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Micropalama chapmani n. sp.1, "Erolia melanotos" = Calidris melanotos1, "Micropalama himantopus" = Calidris himantopus1, "Erolia minutilla" = Calidris minutilla1, Nuntius solitarius n. gen. n. sp.1, Arenaria interpres1, Numenius cf. borealis1, "Actitis macularia" = Actitis macularius1, "Totanus flavipes" = Tringa flavipes1, Tringa ameghini n. sp.1, "Totanus melanoleucas" = Tringa melanoleuca1, Tringa solitaria1, "Catoptrophorus semipalmatus" = Tringa semipalmata1, "Lobipes lobatus" = Phalaropus lobatus1, "Steganopus tricolor" = Phalaropus tricolor1
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Falco sp.1, Falco sparverius1, Falco peregrinus1, Falco femoralis1, Polyborus plancus1, Milvago brodkorbi n. sp.1
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Miraquila terrestris n. gen. n. sp.1, Amplibuteo hibbardi n. gen. n. sp.1, Parabuteo unicinctus1, Geranoaetus melanoleucus1, "Buteo polyosoma" = Geranoaetus polyosoma1, Buteo sp.1
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Dendrocygna autumnalis1, Anas talarae n. sp.1, Anas bahamensis1, Anas amotape n. sp.1, Anas sanctaehelenae n. sp.1, Nomonyx dominicus1, Nannonetta invisitata n. gen. n. sp.1, "Chloephaga melanoptera" = Oressochen melanopterus1, Cairina moschata1
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Eudocimus peruvianus n. sp.1, Eudocimus albus1, "Ajaia ajaja" = Platalea ajaja1, Theristicus wetmorei n. sp.1
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Ardea cocoi1, "Casmerodius albus" = Ardea alba1, Egretta thula1, Egretta caerulea1, Syrigma sanctimartini n. sp.1, Nycticorax nycticorax1
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Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1, Coragyps cf. atratus1, Gymnogyps howardae n. sp.1, Cathartes aura1, Vultur gryphus1, Geronogyps reliquus n. gen. n. sp.1
Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1 Campbell 1979 king vulture generic affiliation uncertain as denoted by question mark in original description
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