Porto Velho: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Iniidae
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Inia sp.
d'Orbigny 1834
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Geography
| Country: | Brazil | State/province: | Rondonia |
| Coordinates: | 8.8° South, 63.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.8° South, 63.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 45000 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rio Madeira | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: radiocarbon date of 45,000 years |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 123975 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-02-04 07:43:21 | Last modified: | 2020-06-01 14:56:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-04 07:43:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39927. | M. A. Cozzuol. 2010. Fossil record and the evolutionary history of Iniodea. In M. Ruiz-Garcia, J. Shotsell (eds.), Biology, Evolution, and Conservation of River Dolphins within South America and Asia 193-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |