Corralito (Pleistocene of Ecuador)

Where: Ecuador (2.2° S, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Lindsey and E. Lopez. 2015. Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene megafaunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecuador. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 57:61-82 [M. Uhen/A. Henshaw/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190069: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Alexandra Henshaw on 27.11.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium indet. Spillmann 1948 edentate
  - Mylodontidae
Scelidodon indet. Ameghino 1881 edentate
Glossotherium tropicorum Hoffstetter 1952 edentate
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon indet. Lund 1841 saber-toothed cat
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Notiomastodon indet. Cabrera 1929 gomphothere