Also known as Campo Don Lisandro
Where: Soriano, Uruguay (33.1° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° S, 57.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dolores Formation, Lujanian (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Jones et al. 2018: According to Berro’s catalogue, the specimen comes from sediments assigned to “upper Pampean” (“Pampeano Superior”). The sediments belong to the Dolores Formation (Lujanian Stage-Age, late Pleistocene/early Holocene). We report a maximum age of OSL 96,040 ± 6300 years (UIC3461) from the base of the sedimentary context.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Alejandro Berro
• Jones et al. 2018: This material was collected by the amateur palaeontologist Alejandro Berro. The specimen consists of a left humerus without distal epiphysis (Fig. 3) belonged to Museo Paleontológico Alejandro Berro (MPAB-2024).
Primary reference: W. Jones, A. Rinderknecht, H. Alvarenga, F. Montenegro, and M. Ubilla. 2018. The last terror birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae): new evidence from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay. PalZ 92:365-372 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211282: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 30.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Psilopterus sp. Moreno and Mercerat 1891 terror bird MPAB-2024, left humerus without distal epiphysis
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