Lajedo de Escada: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon populator Lund 1842
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon waringi (Holland 1920)
synonym of Notiomastodon platensis
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund 1842)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
    = Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903
Oliveira et al. 2010
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Pachyarmatherium brasiliense n. sp. Porpino et al. 2009
23 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio Grande do Norte
Coordinates: 5.2° South, 37.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° South, 37.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:93235
Authorizer:M. Uhen, C. Jaramillo Enterer:M. Uhen, J. Carrillo
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-08 13:29:31 Last modified:2010-01-08 15:29:31
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-08 13:29:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31515. K. O. Porpino, J. C. Fernicola, and L. P. Bergqvist. 2009. A new cingulate (Mammalia: Xenarthra), Pachyarmatherium brasiliense sp. nov., from the Late Pleistocene of northeastern Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):881-893 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

66421 E. V. Oliveira, K. O. Porpino, and A. F. Barreto. 2010. On the presence of Glyptotherium in the Late Pleistocene of Northeastern Brazil, and the status of "Glyptodon" and "Chlamydotherium". Paleobiogeographic implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 258(3):353-363 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]