Guitarrero Cave-Complex 4 (Holocene of Peru)
Where: Peru (9.2° S, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 77.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• C14
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
• complicated stratigraphy
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coprolite
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve
Primary reference: E. S. Wing. 1980. Faunal remains. Guitarrero Cave: Early Man in the Andes 149-172 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 71329: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Karen Sears on 17.02.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Lagidium peruanum Meyen 1833 northern viscacha | |
Cavia porcellus Linnaeus 1758 guinea pig | |
Sylvilagus brasiliensis Linnaeus 1758 tapeti | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Bos taurus Linnaeus 1758 cow | |
Conepatus rex hog-nosed skunk | |
Canis familiaris Linnaeus 1758 dog | |
Marmosa sp. Gray 1821 mouse opossum
Metachirus sp. Burmeister 1854 brown four-eyed opposum |