Paso del Cuello, Libertad Fm (Pleistocene of Uruguay)

Where: Canelones, Uruguay (34.4° S, 56.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 56.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Perea. 1993. Nuevos Dasypodidae fósiles de Uruguay. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 66:149-154 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176485: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 14.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
FC-DPV-640
 Rodentia - Chinchillidae
Lagostomus sp. Brookes 1828 viscacha
FC-DPV-639
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Chaetophractus cf. villosus Desmarest 1804 big hairy armadillo
FC-DPV-638, mobile osteoderm