Cerro Pan de Azúcar ( of Peru)

Where: Moquegua, Peru (17.2° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° S, 65.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Moquegua Formation, Deseadan (29.0 - 21.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collected in 2002

• Museo de Historia Natural, Lima

Primary reference: B. J. Shockey, R. S. Gismondi, P. Gans, A. Jeong, and J. J. Flynn. 2009. Paleontology and geochronology of the Deseadan (late Oligocene) of Moquegua, Peru. American Museum Novitates 3668:1-24 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 176469: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 13.02.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia -
"Sallamys quispea n. sp." = Migraveramus quispea
"Sallamys quispea n. sp." = Migraveramus quispea Shockey et al. 2009 caviomorph
MUSM 1404, dentary dp4-m1, from 20 m below and SE of the summit
 Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
cf. Coniopternium sp. Ameghino 1894 placental
MUSM 669, edentulous dentary and cuboid, western flanks, in sump below conglomerates at base of Upper Moquegua Fm
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
cf. Dasypodinae indet. Gray 1821 armadillo
MUSM 1604, movable-band osteoderm, from about 20 m below and SE of the summit of Cerro Pan de Azúcar
 Notoungulata -
Moqueguahippus glycisma n. gen. n. sp.
Moqueguahippus glycisma n. gen. n. sp. Shockey et al. 2006 notoungulate
"Holotype, MUSM 348, left mandible with p1–3 (p4 and m1 missing) and m2–3, discovered by Rossana Quispe and colleagues at Cerro Pan de Azúcar (fig. 1: b on map);"
 Notoungulata - Mesotheriidae
Trachytherus ramirezi n. sp. Shockey et al. 2016 notoungulate
"MUSM 350, skull (damaged basicranium) and mandibles (Shockey et al., 2006: fig. 2); MUSM 963, left and right partial manus; and astragali MUSM 961, 962, and 966." From the summit.
cf. Trachytheriinae indet. Ameghino 1889 notoungulate
"MUSM 965 right and left manus, the right being nearly complete, while the left is missing the trapezoid and trapezium and the metacarpals are fragmentary (fig. 8C); MUSM 966 astragalus." From the summit.