Lapa de Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa (Pleistocene to of Brazil)

Where: Minas Gerais, Brazil (19.5° S, 44.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 44.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Kerber. 2017. Imigrantes em um continente perdido: O registro fossilífero de roedores Caviomorpha (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenohystrica) do Cenozoico do Brasil . Terræ Didatica 13(2):185-211 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211801: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 28.07.2020, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Speothos pacivorus n. sp. Lund 1839 bush dog
UZM L"406" 180 (holotype), nearly complete skull
 Rodentia - Cuniculidae
Cuniculus paca Linnaeus 1766 lowland paca