Quereo II: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Chile
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Octodontidae
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Octodontidae indet.
Waterhouse 1839
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Phyllotis sp.
Waterhouse 1837
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Lama sp.
Cuvier 1800
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Antifer niemeyeri
Casamiquela 1984
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| type locality | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius sp.
Osborn 1923
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Mylodontidae indet.
Ameghino 1889
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| "Mylodon sp. and/or Glossotherium sp." | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Chile |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° South, 71.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° South, 71.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 67 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
| Age estimate: | 11100 ± 150 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: C14 on wood. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: top of informal Member 3, a "brown sand" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 424 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:see also Nunez 1985 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Quereo Quebrada | ||
| Database number: | 71266 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | ||
| Created: | 1999-02-05 18:28:30 | Last modified: | 2020-11-30 10:53:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-05 18:28:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23979. | L. Nunez. 1983. Paleoindian and Archaic cultural periods in the Arid and Semiarid regions of northern Chile. Advances in World Archaeology 2:161-203 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |