Quebrada de Cachimayu Locality No. 2 (Pleistocene of Peru)

Where: Peru (13.5° S, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 62.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: San Sebastian Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• there is a "minimum radiocarbon date of 43,3000 years B.P." on wood "from this locality"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1977

• 1977 material is in the KUVP collection

Primary reference: D. Frailey and K. E. Campbell. 1980. A Pleistocene record of Bufo spinulosus from Peru. Copeia 1980:935-936 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71296: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.02.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• originally described by Ramirez (1958: not seen)
Mammalia
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Megatherium americanum Cuvier 1796 edentate
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Mazama andina brocket deer
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica Owen 1838 placental
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
1977 collection
Amphibia
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo spinulosus toad
1977 collection