Where: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29.7° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 56.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Muddy Member (Touro Passo Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The material from Touro Passo Creek does not include details about the locality and level of collection, but according to the preservation, it is possible to infer that it comes from the carbonatic level (middle portion of muddy member)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone and carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: MCN-PV, paleovertebrate collection, Museu de Ciências Naturais of the Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brazil).
Primary reference: C. S. Scherer, V. G. Pitana, and A. M. Ribeiro. 2009. Proterotheriidae and Macraucheniidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3):231-246 [C. Jaramillo/C. Suarez-Gomez/C. Suarez-Gomez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151520: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 06.10.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Macrauchenia patachonica" = Macrauchenia patagonica
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Reptilia | |
Trachemys sp. Agassiz 1857 slider |