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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Eptesicus sp. Rafinesque 1820 house bat | |
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon
"Haplomastodon sp." = Notiomastodon Cabrera 1929 gomphothere | |
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Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
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Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Phyllotis sp. Waterhouse 1837 mouse
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926 caviomorph | |
Glossotherium sp. Owen 1840 edentate
Scelidotherium sp. Owen 1839 edentate | |
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948 edentate | |
Chlamytherium sp. Lund 1838 edentate | |
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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Miraquila terrestris n. gen. n. sp.1, Geranoaetus melanoleucus1, "Buteo polyosoma" = Geranoaetus polyosoma1, Parabuteo unicinctus1, Amplibuteo hibbardi n. gen. n. sp.1, Buteo sp.1
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Pluvialis squatarola1, Pluvialis dominica1, Viator picis n. gen. n. sp.1, Belonopterus edmondi n. sp.1, Charadrius vociferus1, Charadrius semipalmatus1, Charadrius collaris1
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"Micropalama himantopus" = Calidris himantopus1, "Erolia melanotos" = Calidris melanotos1, "Erolia minutilla" = Calidris minutilla1, Micropalama chapmani n. sp.1, Arenaria interpres1, Numenius cf. borealis1, "Totanus melanoleucas" = Tringa melanoleuca1, "Catoptrophorus semipalmatus" = Tringa semipalmata1, Tringa ameghini n. sp.1, Tringa solitaria1, "Totanus flavipes" = Tringa flavipes1, "Actitis macularia" = Actitis macularius1, "Steganopus tricolor" = Phalaropus tricolor1, "Lobipes lobatus" = Phalaropus lobatus1, Nuntius solitarius n. gen. n. sp.1
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Falco sp.1, Falco peregrinus1, Falco sparverius1, Falco femoralis1, Polyborus plancus1, Milvago brodkorbi n. sp.1
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Nomonyx dominicus1, Anas sanctaehelenae n. sp.1, Anas bahamensis1, Anas amotape n. sp.1, Anas talarae n. sp.1, Dendrocygna autumnalis1, Cairina moschata1, "Chloephaga melanoptera" = Oressochen melanopterus1, Nannonetta invisitata n. gen. n. sp.1
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Syrigma sanctimartini n. sp.1, Egretta caerulea1, Egretta thula1, Nycticorax nycticorax1, "Casmerodius albus" = Ardea alba1, Ardea cocoi1
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Theristicus wetmorei n. sp.1, "Ajaia ajaja" = Platalea ajaja1, Eudocimus albus1, Eudocimus peruvianus n. sp.1
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Gymnogyps howardae n. sp.1, Geronogyps reliquus n. gen. n. sp.1, Cathartes aura1, Vultur gryphus1, Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1, Coragyps cf. atratus1
Sarcoramphus fischeri n. sp.1 Campbell 1979 king vulture generic affiliation uncertain as denoted by question mark in original description
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