Ilha da Formiga: Pleistocene, Brazil
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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cf. Pecari tajacu
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| UFSM 11606 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Brazil |
| Coordinates: | 9.3° South, 64.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.3° South, 64.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 46 to 27 Ka (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Rio Madeira | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: during the latest Middle Pleistocene/ Late Pleistocene (radiocarbon dating: ~27 ka BP and > ~46 ka BP; Rizzotto et al. 2006; Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Thermoluminescence, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence: 130,000 to 9,000 years BP; Da-Rosa et al. 2012) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Lithology description: The fossil was recovered from a conglomeratic deposit (“mucururu”; see Costa 1991) of the Rio Madeira Formation | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: The fossiliferous levels of this formation were originated by a fluvial system (see Quadros et al. 2006) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 217277 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Kouvari |
| Created: | 2021-02-03 06:52:32 | Last modified: | 2021-02-03 06:52:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-02-03 06:52:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 75435. | P. L. Copetti, R. Parisi-Dutra, A. A. S. Da-Rosa and L. Kerber. 2021. A new record of Tayassuidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of northern Brazil. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences 93(2):e20191080 [P. Mannion/M. Kouvari] |