Toca da Boa Vista (Pleistocene to of Brazil)

Where: Bahia, Brazil (10.2° S, 40.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 40.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• AMS C14 on bone

•date is for a deposit that may be in another chamber than the one described by Cartelle and Hartwig

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Cartelle and W. C. Hartwig. 1996. A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93:6405-6409 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71313: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.02.1999, edited by Gustavo Ballen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Pteronotus parnelli mustached bat
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Coendou prehensilis Linnaeus 1758 prehensile-tailed porcupine
 Primates - Atelidae
Caipora bambuiorum n. gen. n. sp. Cartelle and Hartwig 1996 monkey
type locality
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
 Chiroptera - Molossidae
Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 Mexican free-tailed bat
 Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Desmodus rotundus Geoffroy 1810 common vampire bat
Desmodus draculae Morgan et al. 1988 vampire bat
"Mormoops megalophylla" = Mormoops megaphylla Peters 1864 leaf-nosed bat
Lonchophylla mordax nectar bat
originally entered as "Loncophylla mordax"
Chrotopterus auritus Peters 1856 big-eared woolly bat
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Lama guanicoe Müller 1776 guanaco
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Mazama gouazoubira" = Cervus gouazoubira
"Mazama gouazoubira" = Cervus gouazoubira Fischer 1814 deer
 Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842 saber-toothed cat
Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar
Leopardus tigrina cat
"Felis tigrina"
Leopardus pardalis Linnaeus 1758 ocelot
"Felis pardalis"
Puma concolor Linnaeus 1771 puma
"Felis concolor"
"Herpailurus yagouaroundi" = Puma yagouaroundi Geoffroy 1803 jaguarundi
"Felis yagouaroundi"
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus semistriatus Boddaert 1785 striped hog-nosed skunk
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon cancrivorus Cuvier 1798 crab eating raccoon
 Carnivora - Ursidae
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cerdocyon thous Linnaeus 1766 crab eating fox
Protocyon troglodytes Lund 1938 canine
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Euphractus sexcinctus Linnaeus 1758 six banded armadillo
 Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium maquinense Lund 1839 edentate
MCL 2825
  - Mylodontidae
 Theriamorpha - Myrmecophagidae
Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758 giant anteater