Osorno (Pleistocene of Chile)

Where: Chile (40.0° S, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 73.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial; peat

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: M. Pino, M. Hoffmeister, X. N. Harris and R. Labarca. 2013. The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile. Quatenary International 229:3-12 [M. Uhen/A. Henshaw/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 190058: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Alexandra Henshaw on 27.11.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Stegomastodon platensis" = Notiomastodon platensis
"Stegomastodon platensis" = Notiomastodon platensis Ameghino 1888 gomphothere
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia paradoxa Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus andium" = Equus (Amerhippus) andium
"Equus andium" = Equus (Amerhippus) andium Wagner-Branco 1883 horse